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Anosteira

Anosteira
Temporal range: Eocene-Oligocene
A. maomingensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Carettochelyidae
Subfamily: †Anosteirinae
Genus: †Anosteira
Leidy, 1871

Anosteira is an extinct genus of carettochelyid turtle from the Eocene to the Oligocene of Asia and North America.

Taxonomy

After[1]

  • Anosteira manchuriana Zangerl, 1947 Liaoning, China, late Eocene
  • Anosteira maomingensis Chow and Liu, 1955 Youkanwo Formation, Guangdong, China, Late Eocene
  • Anosteira mongoliensis Gilmore, 1931 Inner Mongolia, China, Late Eocene-Oligocene
  • Anosteira ornata Leidy, 1871 Bridger Formation, Wyoming, USA, Early Eocene
  • Anosteira pulchra (Clark, 1932) Uinta Formation, Utah, USA, Middle Eocene (Lutetian)

References

  1. ^ Joyce, Walter G. (April 2014). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Carettochelys". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 55 (1): 3–33. doi:10.3374/014.055.0102. ISSN 0079-032X.

Sources

  • The Osteology of the Reptiles by Alfred Sherwood Romer
  • Chinese Fossil Vertebrates by Spencer G. Lucas
  • The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin. p. 344.


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