Eurysternum
Appearance
Eurysternum Temporal range:
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
Family: | †Eurysternidae |
Genus: | †Eurysternum Meyer, 1839 |
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Eurysternum is an extinct genus of sea turtle. Its type species is Eurysternum wagleri,[1] the holotype of which has since been lost and only survives in illustrations.[2]
Eurysternum ignoratum Bram, 1965, formerly assigned to this genus, is a junior synonym of Thalassemys hughii.[3]
References
- ^ Karl Cäsar von Leonhard. 1861 (ed.). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde. E. Schweizerbart. p. 473.
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has numeric name (help) - ^ Walter G. Joyce (2003). "A new Late Jurassic turtle specimen and the taxonomy of Palaeomedusa testa and Eurysternum wagleri" (PDF). PaleoBios. 23 (3): 1–8.
- ^ J. Anquetin, C. Puntener, and J.-P. Billon-Bruyat. 2014. A taxonomic review of the Late Jurassic eucryptodiran turtles from the Jura Mountains (Switzerland and France). PeerJ 2:e369
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