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Neusticemys

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Neusticemys
Temporal range: Tithonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pantestudines
Clade: Testudinata
Clade: Thalassochelydia
Family: Thalassemydidae
Genus: Neusticemys
Fernandez and de la Fuente, 1993
Type species
Eurysternum neuquina
Fernandez and de la Fuente, 1988

Neusticemys is an extinct genus of sea turtle. Its type species is Neusticemys neuquina.

Neusticemys was originally described as a new species of Eurysternum, but was later assigned to its own genus in 1993.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Fernández, M.S. y de la Fuente, M.S. 1988. Nueva tortuga (Cryptodira: Thalassemydidae) de la Formación Vaca Muerta (Jurásico, Tithoniano) de la Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina. Ameghiniana 25: 129-138.
  2. ^ M. S. Fernandez and M. S. de la Fuente. 1993. Las tortugas casiquélidias de las calizas litográficas titonianas del área Los Catutos Argentina. Ameghiniana 30(3):283-295.