Anosteira

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Anosteira
Fossil range: Eocene-Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Trionychoidea
Family: Carettochelyidae
Subfamily: Anosteirinae
Genus: Anosteira
Leidy, 1871

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

[edit] 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.

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