Eurysternum Temporal range: Kimmeridgian
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Family: | †Eurysternidae |
Genus: | †Eurysternum Meyer, 1839 |
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Eurysternum is an extinct genus of thalassochelydian turtle.[1] Its type species is Eurysternum wagleri,[2] the holotype of which has since been lost and only survives in illustrations.[3]
Eurysternum ignoratum Bram, 1965 is a junior synonym of Thalassemys hughii.[4] The Late Jurassic species Eurysternum neuquinum Fernandez and de la Fuente, 1988, described from marine deposits in Argentina, is now placed in its own genus Neusticemys.[5]