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Meiolania is an
extinct genus of
meiolaniid stem-turtle
native to
Australasia throughout much of the Cenozoic.
Meiolania was a
large turtle, with the s****...
- the
Middle Jur****ic. They are best
known from the last
surviving genus,
Meiolania,
which lived in
Australia from the
Miocene until the Pleistocene, and...
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possibly New
South Wales (Australia). It
overall resembled its relative,
Meiolania, save that the
largest pair of
horns on its head
stuck out to the sides...
- from
Argentina to London,
allowing him to
compare it to the
remains of
Meiolania platyceps, a
turtle named by
Richard Owen from Australia.
According to...
- that is
present between the
labial and
lingual ridges of
Meiolania and
unlike in
Meiolania or Niolamia, the
labial ridge is taller. Both run parallel...
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distinctive bull-like
horns of
Meiolania.
Gaffney and
colleagues found that
Warkalania shared several features of its
horns with
Meiolania,
including the size of...
- species, such as the land
crocodile (Mekosuchus kalpokasi), land
tortoise (
Meiolania damelipi) and
various flightless bird species.
Lapita settlements reached...
- such as the
Elephant bird, moa, Haast's eagle, Quinkana,
Megalania and
Meiolania. The
severe climatic changes during the Ice Age had
major impacts on the...
- bird over a
metre tall not
closely related to any
living species, and
Meiolania, a
giant horned turtle that
diverged from
living turtles during the Jur****ic...
- Pleistocene,
comparably sized or
larger tortoises were
present in
Australia (
Meiolania),
southern Asia (Megalochelys),
Europe (Titanochelon),
Madagascar (Aldabrachelys)...
