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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...
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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...
- Asia
during the Eocene. A late
surviving group of stem-turtles, the
Meiolaniidae,
survived in
Australasia into the
Pleistocene and Holocene. The turtles'...
- †Trapalcochelys
Sterli et al. 2013
Upper Campanian,
Allen Formation,
Argentina †
Meiolaniidae Lydekker 1887,
Eocene to Holocene,
Argentina and
Australia and Oceania...
- scutes,
Gaffneylania was
recovered in
multiple different positions within Meiolaniidae,
which includes a
basal position along Niolamia or a more
derived placement...
- †Mongolochelys †
Meiolaniidae ...
- by at
least five taxa, four from
Chelidae (Pleurodira) and one from
Meiolaniidae (Cryptodira).
Plesiosaurs include two
elasmosaurs (Kawanectes and Chubutinectes)...
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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...
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several possible positions within Meiolaniidae. The two
phylogenetic trees below show Ninjemys'
position in
Meiolaniidae as
recovered by Gaffney, Archer...
- (Liasis olivacea).
Meiolania was a
genus of huge
terrestrial stem-turtle (
Meiolaniidae)
measuring 2.5 m (8 ft) in length, with
horned heads and
spiked tails...
