Meiolania platyceps

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 platyceps

Name

• †

Meiolania platyceps Owen 1886

• • Holotype: BMNH R.675
  • Type locality: Lord Howe Island, Australia; Pleistocene

References

• 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.