Neusticemys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | † Thalassochelydia |
Family: | † Thalassemydidae |
Genus: | †
Neusticemys Fernandez and de la Fuente, 1993 |
Type species | |
Eurysternum neuquinum Fernandez and de la Fuente, 1988
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Neusticemys is an extinct genus of thalassochelydian sea turtle. Its type species is Eurysternum neuquinum. It is known from the Late Jurassic ( Tithonian) aged Vaca Muerta of Patagonia, Argentina
Neusticemys was originally described as a new species of Eurysternum, but was later assigned to its own genus in 1993. [1] [2]