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Turtle
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Paleogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Eocene
International Age: Lutetian
Messel Formation
Collector: T. Bastelberger
Acquired by: Field Collection
Length: 20 cm
Messel Pit
Messel near Darmstadt
Hessia
Germany
Synonym: Anosteira gracilis Harrassowitz 1922.
Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.
Identified by Prof. Walter Joyce, Department of Geosciences, Université de Fribourg.
References:
Harrassowitz, H.L.F. (1922): Die Schildkrötengattung Anosteira von Messel bei Darmstadt und ihre stammesgeschichtliche Bedeutung. Abhandlungen der Hessischen Geologischen Landesanstalt zu Darmstadt, 6 (3): 138-238.
Joyce, W. G. (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.
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