Meiolania

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Infraordo: Meiolaniformes
Familia: †Meiolaniidae
Genus: † Meiolania
Species: † M. mackayi – M. platyceps

Nome

• † Meiolania Owen 1886
  • Specie tipo: † Meiolania platyceps Owen, 1886

Riferimenti

• Owen, R. 1886. Description of some fossil remains of two species of a megalanian genus (Meiolania) from “Lord Howe’s Island.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London

B179:181–191.

• Sterli, J. 2015. A Review of the Fossil Record of Gondwanan Turtles of the Clade Meiolaniformes. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56(1):21–45.