Lord Howe Island (Meiolania Old Collection) (Pleistocene of Australia)
Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.5° S, 159.1° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° S, 159.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Found in beach exposures
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1886. Description of Fossil Remains of two Species of a Megalanian Genus (Meiolania, Ow.), from Lord Howe's Island. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 179:181-191 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185430: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.04.2017
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Taxonomic list
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"Meiolania platyceps n. gen. n. sp." = Meiolania platyceps, "Ceratochelys sthenurus n. gen. n. sp." = Meiolania platyceps, "Meiolania minor n. sp." = Meiolania platyceps
"Meiolania platyceps n. gen. n. sp." = Meiolania platyceps Owen 1886 turtle BMNH R675, partial skull
"Ceratochelys sthenurus n. gen. n. sp." = Meiolania platyceps Owen 1886 turtle
"Meiolania minor n. sp." = Meiolania platyceps Owen 1886 turtle the current disposition of the material is unclear
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