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Warkalania
Discussion
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).
Taxonomy
Warkalania was named by Gaffney et al. (1992). Its type is Warkalania carinaminor.
It was assigned to Meiolaniidae by Gaffney et al. (1992), Gaffney (1996), Sterli and de la Fuente (2013), de la Fuente et al. (2014), Sterli (2015), Sterli et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Meiolaniidae by Gaffney et al. (1992), Gaffney (1996), Sterli and de la Fuente (2013), de la Fuente et al. (2014), Sterli (2015), Sterli et al. (2015).
Species
W. carinaminor (type species)