Owadowia borsukbialynickae Szczygielski et al. 2017 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines

Full reference: T. Szczygielski, D. Tyborowski, and B. Błażejowski. 2017. A new pancryptodiran turtle from the Late Jurassic of Poland and palaeobiology of early marine turtles. Geological Journal

Belongs to Owadowia according to J. Anquetin et al. 2017

See also Szczygielski et al. 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ZPAL V/O‐B/1959, a partial skeleton (fragment of the lower jaw, right coracoid, ilium + femur). Its type locality is Owadów‐Brzezinki quarry (Unit I), which is in a Tithonian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Kcynia Formation of Poland.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Owadów‐Brzezinki quarry (Unit I)

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