Palaeomedusa

Palaeomedusa; Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Tithonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Palaeomedusa testa fossil at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Pantestudines
Clade:	Testudinata
Clade:	†Thalassochelydia
Family:	†Thalassemydidae
Genus:	†Palaeomedusa
Species:	†P. testa
Binomial name
	†Palaeomedusa testa; Meyer, 1860
Synonyms
	Eurysternum crassipes Wagner 1859 ;

Palaeomedusa testa is an extinct species of thalassochelydian turtle from the Tithonian of the Late Jurassic (145.5 to 150.8 million years ago).^[1] It was first described by the German palaeontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1860.^[2] It is the only species classified under the genus Palaeomedusa.^[3]

References

^ J. Anquetin, C. Puntener, and W. G. Joyce. 2017. A review of the fossil record of turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(3):317-369
^ F. A. Quenstedt. 1882. Handbuch der Petrefaktenkunde [Handbook of Fossils] viii-1239
^ Walter G. Joyce (2003). "A new Late Jurassic turtle specimen and the taxonomy of Palaeomedusa testa and Eurysternum wagleri" (PDF). PaleoBios. 23 (3): 1–8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-01.

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