Eurysternum Temporal range:
Kimmeridgian
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Fossil in Bürgermeister Müller Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | † Thalassochelydia |
Family: | † Eurysternidae |
Genus: | †
Eurysternum Meyer, 1839 |
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Eurysternum is an extinct genus of thalassochelydian turtle. [1] Its type species is Eurysternum wagleri, [2] the holotype of which has since been lost and only survives in illustrations. [3]
Eurysternum ignoratum Bram, 1965 is a junior synonym of Thalassemys hughii. [4] 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. [5]