Palaeomedusa

<i>Palaeomedusa</i>

Palaeomedusa

Extinct genus of turtles

Not to be confused with Pelomedusa.

Palaeomedusa testa is an extinct species of thalassochelydian turtle from the Tithonian of the Late Jurassic (145.5 to 150.8 million years ago).[1] It was first described by the German palaeontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1860.[2] It is the only species classified under the genus Palaeomedusa.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    J. Anquetin, C. Puntener, and W. G. Joyce. 2017. A review of the fossil record of turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(3):317-369
  2. [2]
    F. A. Quenstedt. 1882. Handbuch der Petrefaktenkunde [Handbook of Fossils] viii-1239
  3. [3]
    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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-01.


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