Meiolania mackayi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Testudines

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Archelosauria Division: Pan-Testudines Division: Testudinata Ordo: Testudines

Infraordo: Meiolaniformes
Familia: †Meiolaniidae
Genus: †Meiolania
Species: † Meiolania mackayi

Name

• † Meiolania mackayi Anderson 1925
  • Holotype: AM F17720
  • Type locality: Walpole Island, New Caledonia; ?Pleistocene.

References

• Anderson, C. 1925. Notes on the extinct chelonian Meiolania, with record of a new occurrence. Records of the Australian Museum 14:223–242.
• 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.