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Meiolania
Taxonomy
Meiolania was named by Owen (1886).
It was assigned to Miolaniidae by Lydekker (1889); to Meiolanidae by Gaffney (1996); to Testudinata by Joyce (2007), Danilov and Parham (2008), Pérez-García and Ortega (2011), Pérez-García (2012) and Pérez-García and Murelaga (2013); and to Meiolaniidae by Gaffney (1983), Carroll (1988), Megirian (1992), Anquetin (2012), Sterli and de la Fuente (2013), de la Fuente et al. (2014), Sterli (2015), Sterli et al. (2015) and Rhodin et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Miolaniidae by Lydekker (1889); to Meiolanidae by Gaffney (1996); to Testudinata by Joyce (2007), Danilov and Parham (2008), Pérez-García and Ortega (2011), Pérez-García (2012) and Pérez-García and Murelaga (2013); and to Meiolaniidae by Gaffney (1983), Carroll (1988), Megirian (1992), Anquetin (2012), Sterli and de la Fuente (2013), de la Fuente et al. (2014), Sterli (2015), Sterli et al. (2015) and Rhodin et al. (2015).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1886 | Meiolania Owen p. 315 |
| 1889 | Miolania Lydekker pp. 159-160 |
| 1983 | Meiolania Gaffney |
| 1988 | Meiolania Carroll |
| 1992 | Meiolania Megirian |
| 1996 | Meiolania Gaffney |
| 2007 | Meiolania Joyce |
| 2008 | Meiolania Danilov and Parham |
| 2011 | Meiolania Pérez-García and Ortega |
| 2012 | Meiolania Anquetin p. 34 fig. 10 |
| 2012 | Meiolania Pérez-García |
| 2013 | Meiolania Pérez-García and Murelaga |
| 2013 | Meiolania Sterli and de la Fuente |
| 2014 | Meiolania de la Fuente et al. |
| 2015 | Meiolania Rhodin et al. |
| 2015 | Meiolania Sterli p. 37 |
| 2015 | Meiolania Sterli et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Meiolania Owen 1886
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†Meiolania brevicollis Megirian 1992
†Meiolania mackayi Anderson 1925
†Meiolania platyceps Owen 1886
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Invalid names: Ceratochelys sthenurus Huxley 1887 [objective synonym], Meiolania minor Owen 1886 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. Sterli 2015 | Meiolania can be diagnosed as a meiolaniid by the complete list of characters listed above for that clade |
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Sterli 2015, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Miocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 15.97000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Miocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | M. brevicollis (92839) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | M. platyceps (185435 185436 185437 185438 185439) M. platyceps, M. minor, Ceratochelys sthenurus (185430) | |
| Pleistocene | New Caledonia (Isle of Pines) | M. mackayi (185433) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | M. sp. (135983) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | M. platyceps (183080) |