Anosteira

Anosteira Temporal range: Eocene-Oligocene
A. maomingensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Family:	Carettochelyidae
Subfamily:	† Anosteirinae
Genus:	† Anosteira Leidy, 1871

Anosteira is an extinct genus of carettochelyid turtle from the Eocene to the Oligocene of Asia and North America.

Taxonomy

After ^[1]

• Anosteira manchuriana Zangerl, 1947 Liaoning, China, late Eocene
• Anosteira maomingensis Chow and Liu, 1955 Youkanwo Formation, Guangdong, China, Late Eocene
• Anosteira mongoliensis Gilmore, 1931 Inner Mongolia, China, Late Eocene-Oligocene
• Anosteira ornata Leidy, 1871 Bridger Formation, Wyoming, USA, Early Eocene
• Anosteira pulchra (Clark, 1932) Uinta Formation, Utah, USA, Middle Eocene (Lutetian)

References

1. Joyce, Walter G. (April 2014). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Carettochelys". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 55 (1): 3–33. Bibcode:2014BPMNH..55....3J. doi:10.3374/014.055.0102. ISSN   0079-032X.

Sources

• The Osteology of the Reptiles by Alfred Sherwood Romer
• Chinese Fossil Vertebrates by Spencer G. Lucas
• The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin. p. 344.

External links

• Anosteira in the Paleobiology Database