Ninjemys oweni Woodward, 1888:89
Owen’s giant horned ninja turtle, Owen's (giant) horned turtle (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Meiolania oweni Woodward, 1888:89; Ceratochelys sthenurus Huxley, 1887:232
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Queensland, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Woodward, A. S. (1888). Note on the extinct reptilian genera Megalania, Owen, and Meiolania, Owen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)1: 85-89.
Other references:
Anderson, C. (1926). The extinct horned turtle Meiolania. The Australian Museum Magazine 2(10): 360-362.
Gaffney, E. S. (1992). Ninjemys, a new name for “Melolania” oweni (Woodward), a horned turtle from the Pleistocene of Queensland. American Museum Novitates 3049: 1-10.
Gaffney, Eugene S. (1996). The postcranial morphology of Meiolania platyceps and a review of the Meiolaniidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 229: 1-166.
Gaffney, Eugene S. and McNamara, Greg. (1990). A meiolaniid turtle from the Pleistocene of northern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum (Proceedings of the De Vis Symposium) 28(1): 107-113.
Huxley, Thomas H. (1887). Preliminary note on the fossil remains of a che-lonian reptile, Ceratochelys sthenurus, from Lord Howe’s Island, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society 42: 232-238.
Mittermeier, Russell A. (1972). Zoogeography of Fossil and Living Turtles. Australian Natural History 17(8): 265-269.
Thorn, Kailah M., Poropat, Stephen F., Bell, Phil R., Hocknull, Scott A., Kear, Bejamin P., Palci, Alessandro, Salisbury, Steven W. and Yates, Adam M. (2021). Checklist of the fossil reptile and amphibian species of Australia. Available from: https://www.australasianpalaeontologists.com/national-fossil-species-lists [Accessed 24 November 2024]
Turtle Extinctions Working Group et al. (2015). Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 5: 1-66.
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