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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)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1992 | Warkalania Gaffney et al. |
| 1996 | Warkalania Gaffney |
| 2013 | Warkalania Sterli and de la Fuente |
| 2014 | Warkalania de la Fuente et al. |
| 2015 | Warkalania Sterli |
| 2015 | Warkalania Sterli et al. |
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. S. Gaffney et al. 1992 | Meiolaniid with B scale area (encompassing the largest horn in other meiolaniids), delimiting a low, horizontal ridge, not a recurved horn as in Meiolania nor a large lateral projection as in Niolamia (including Crossochelys) and Ninjemys oweni; A, B, and e scales formed into low, horizontal ridges, small and roughly similar in size to each other, in contrast to all other meiolaniids; A scale area not as protuberant as in Niolamia and Ninjemys oweni but more protuberant than in Meiolania; e scale area a low ridge, higher than in Meiolania but lower than in the other meiolaniids; X scale small, and D scales in midline contact as in Ninjemys oweni and Meiolania. | |
| J. Sterli 2015 | Warkalania carinaminor can be diagnosed as a meiolaniid by the presence of a contact between quadratojugal and squamosal below cavum tympani and the presence of squamosal horns |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Sterli 2015, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Oligocene or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | Australia (Queensland) | W. carinaminor (143358) |