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''Niolamia'' is an extinct
at Fossilworks.org ''Crossochelys'' was found to be a synonym in a review of South American Turtles.
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of South America
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n meiolaniid turtle. Arthur Smith Woodward
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS (23 May 1864 – 2 September 1944) was an English palaeontologist, known as a world expert in fossil fish. He also described the Piltdown Man fossils, which were later determined to be fraudulent. He is not relate ...
classified it as being in the genus ''Meiolania
''Meiolania'' ("small roamer") is an extinct genus of meiolaniid stem-turtle native to Australasia from the Middle Miocene to Late Pleistocene and possibly Holocene. It is best known from fossils found on Lord Howe Island, though fossils are know ...
'', which this genus name is an anagram of, but this was not accepted by later authors. The genus is known from the Sarmiento Formation in Argentina
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.''Niolamia''at Fossilworks.org ''Crossochelys'' was found to be a synonym in a review of South American Turtles.
References
Further reading
* Turtles, Tortoises and Terrapins: Survivors in Armor by Ronald Orenstein (Pg. 43) * Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent (Life of the Past) by Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, and Steven Morton Meiolaniformes Prehistoric turtle genera Eocene turtles Prehistoric turtles of South America Eocene reptiles of South America Divisaderan Mustersan Casamayoran Bartonian life Lutetian life Paleogene Argentina Fossils of Argentina Golfo San Jorge Basin Fossil taxa described in 1899 Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino Sarmiento Formation {{paleo-turtle-stub