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Extinct genus of turtles
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
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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