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Ninjemys

Description

Ninjemys oweni ("Owen's Ninja Turtle") is an extinct large meiolaniid stem-turtle from Pleistocene Queensland (Australia). It resembled its larger relative, Meiolania, save that the largest pair of horns on its head stuck out to the sides, rather than point backwards.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4818341https://www.gbif.org/species/4818341
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)253361https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=253361
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Meiolaniidae : Ninjemys
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudinata : Meiolaniidae : Ninjemys
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)doubtful
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
-Testudinata
-PerichelydiaJoyce 2017
-MeiolaniformesSterli and de la Fuente 2013
familyMeiolaniidaeLydekker 1887
genusNinjemysGaffney 1992
Scientific NameNinjemys Gaffney, 1992
Name Published InAm Mus Novit No. 3049
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Ninjemysgenusbelongs to Meiolaniidaestated with evidenceGaffney, 1996
Ninjemysgenusbelongs to Meiolaniidaestated without evidenceRhodin et al., 2015
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance2.59 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene
Last Recorded Appearance2.59 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Meiolaniidae)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)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
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjemys

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Ninjemys oweni
species
listed (PBDB)12.59 Ma
Pleistocene
2.59 Ma
Pleistocene

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1992Ninjemys Gaffney p. 5
1996Ninjemys Gaffney
2012Ninjemys Anquetin p. 34 fig. 10
2013Ninjemys Sterli and de la Fuente
2014Ninjemys de la Fuente et al.
2015Ninjemys Rhodin et al.
2015Ninjemys Sterli
2015Ninjemys Sterli et al.

References

Gaffney E. S. (1992) Ninjemys, a new name for "Meiolania" oweni (Woodward), a Horned Turtle from the Pleistocene of Queensland, American Museum Novitates 3049, 1-10
Gaffney E. S. (1996) The postcranial morphology of Meiolania platyceps and a review of the Meiolanidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 229, 1-172
Anquetin J. (2012) Reassessment of the phylogenetic interrelationships of basal turtles (Testudinata), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10 1, 3-45 doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.558928
Sterli J., de la Fuente M. S. (2013) New evidence from the Palaeocene of Patagonia (Argentina) on the evolution and palaeo-biogeography of Meiolaniformes (Testudinata, new taxon name), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11 7, 835-852 doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.708674
de la Fuente M. S., Sterli J., et al (2014) Origin, Evolution and Biogeographic History of South American Turtles, Springer Earth System Sciences doi:0.1007/978-3-319-00518-8
Sterli J. (2015) A Review of the Fossil Record of Gondwanan Turtles of the Clade Meiolaniformes, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56 1, 21-45
Sterli J., de la Fuente M. S., et al (2015) A new turtle from the Palaeogene of Patagonia (Argentina) sheds new light on the diversity and evolution of the bizarre clade of horned turtles (Meiolaniidae, Testudinata), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174, 519-548
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Am Mus Novit No. 3049 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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