Meiolaniidae
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meiolaniidae-185-2365059
title:
Meiolaniidae
text:
Meiolaniidae is an extinct family of large, probably herbivorous stem-group turtles with heavily armored heads and clubbed tails known from South America and Australasia. Though once believed to be cryptodires, they are not closely related to any living species of turtle, and lie outside crown group Testudines, having diverged from them around the Middle Jurassic. They are best known from the last surviving genus, Meiolania, which lived in Australia from the Miocene until the Pleistocene, and in
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct family of turtles
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiolaniidae
date created:
2007-03-18T20:11:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T16:53:19Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
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16