†Ninjemys Gaffney 1992 (turtle)
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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
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at King's Creek (Quaternary of Australia)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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