Reptilia - Testudinata - Meiolaniidae
Etymology. Warka, Queensland aboriginal for turtle; lania, in reference to the usual endings for meiolaniids (Lanius is Latin for "butcher" but Owen (1886b) gave no indication of an etymology when he erected Meiolania).
Full reference: E. S. Gaffney, M. Archer, and A. White. 1992. Warkalania, a new meiolaniid turtle from the Tertiary Riversleigh Deposits of Queensland, Australia. The Beagle, Records of The Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 9(1):35-48
Parent taxon: Meiolaniidae according to J. Sterli 2015
See also de la Fuente et al. 2014, Gaffney 1996, Gaffney et al. 1992, Sterli and de la Fuente 2013 and Sterli et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Gaffneylania, Meiolania, Ninjemys, Niolamia, Miolania
Subtaxa: Warkalania carinaminor
Type: Warkalania carinaminor
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Pancake Site (Oligocene of Australia)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.