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(Redirected from Acichelys) Extinct genus of turtles

Eurysternum
Temporal range: Kimmeridgian
~155–150 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil in Bürgermeister Müller Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pantestudines
Clade: Testudinata
Clade: Thalassochelydia
Family: Eurysternidae
Genus: Eurysternum
Meyer, 1839
Species
  • E. wagleri Meyer, 1839
Synonyms
  • Acichelys Meyer, 1854
Fossil in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

Eurysternum is an extinct genus of thalassochelydian turtle. Its type species is Eurysternum wagleri, the holotype of which has since been lost and only survives in illustrations.

Formerly assigned species

Eurysternum ignoratum Bram, 1965 is a junior synonym of Thalassemys hughii. The Late Jurassic species Eurysternum neuquinum Fernandez and de la Fuente, 1988, described from marine deposits in Argentina, is now placed in its own genus Neusticemys.

References

  1. Anquetin, J.; Püntener, C.; Joyce, W. G. (2017). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 58 (2): 317–369. doi:10.3374/014.058.0205. S2CID 31091127.
  2. Karl Cäsar von Leonhard (1861). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde. E. Schweizerbart. p. 473.
  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.
  4. 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
  5. 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.
Pantestudines
Sauropsida
Pantestudines
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Pantestudines
Pantestudines
Testudinata
Australochelyidae
Meiolaniformes
Meiolaniidae
Sichuanchelyidae
Helochelydridae
Compsemydidae
Paracryptodira
Pleurosternidae
Baenidae
Xinjiangchelyidae
Sinemydidae /
Macrobaenidae
Thalassochelydia
(sensu Joyce et al., 2021)
"Eurysternidae"
"Plesiochelyidae"
Sandownidae
Testudines
Pappochelys rosinae Meiolania brevicollis
Taxon identifiers
Eurysternum


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