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Meiolaniidae is an
extinct family of large,
probably herbivorous stem-group
turtles with
heavily armored heads and
clubbed tails known from
South America...
- Asia
during the Eocene. A late
surviving group of stem-turtles, the
Meiolaniidae,
survived in
Australasia into the
Pleistocene and Holocene. The turtles'...
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final publication covering the s**** and
limbs while also
reviewing Meiolaniidae as a whole.
These papers were
published in 1983, 1985, and 1996, respectively...
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several possible positions within Meiolaniidae. The two
phylogenetic trees below show Ninjemys'
position in
Meiolaniidae as
recovered by Gaffney, Archer...
- by at
least five taxa, four from
Chelidae (Pleurodira) and one from
Meiolaniidae (Cryptodira).
Plesiosaurs include two
elasmosaurs (Kawanectes and Chubutinectes)...
- scutes,
Gaffneylania was
recovered in
multiple different positions within Meiolaniidae,
which includes a
basal position along Niolamia or a more
derived placement...
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Patagonian Horned Turtle Niolamia argentina Ameghino, 1899 (Testudinata,
Meiolaniidae)" (PDF).
Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (6): 1210–1229. Bibcode:2011JVPal...
- five-to-six-metre-long
Australian constrictor snake)
Several spp. of
Meiolaniidae (giant
armoured turtles)
Meiolania Ninjemys The
megafaunal extinctions...
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Chubutemys Otwayemys Patagoniaemys Peligrochelys Trapalcochelys Meiolaniidae Gaffneylania Meiolania Ninjemys Niolamia Warkalania...
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Australia and the
South Pacific. However,
extinct giant horned turtles (
Meiolaniidae)
likely filled a
similar niche, with Late Pleistocene-Holocene meiolaniid...
