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Niolamia argentina

Niolamia
Temporal range: Eocene (Casamayoran-Divisaderan)
~48.6–37.2 Ma
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Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Meiolaniidae
Genus: Niolamia
Ameghino, 1899
species
  • N. argentina

Niolamia is an extinct genus of South American meiolaniid turtle.Arthur Smith Woodward sunk it into Meiolania, but this was not accepted by later authors. The genus is known from the Sarmiento Formation in Argentina.


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