Ninjemys Gaffney 1992 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudinata - Meiolaniidae

ETYMOLOGY: Ninja, in allusion to that totally rad, fearsome foursome epitomizing shelled success; emys, turtle.

Full reference: E. S. Gaffney. 1992. Ninjemys, a new name for "Meiolania" oweni (Woodward), a Horned Turtle from the Pleistocene of Queensland. American Museum Novitates (3049)1-10

Parent taxon: Meiolaniidae according to J. Sterli 2015

See also Anquetin 2012, de la Fuente et al. 2014, Gaffney 1996, Rhodin et al. 2015, Sterli and de la Fuente 2013 and Sterli et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Gaffneylania, Meiolania, Niolamia, Warkalania, Miolania

Subtaxa: Ninjemys oweni

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at King's Creek (Quaternary of Australia)

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