Owadowia Explained

Owadowia is a genus of extinct thalassochelydian turtle from the Late Jurassic of Poland. The type and only species is Owadowia borsukbialynickae, named by Szczygielski and colleagues in 2017 for a partial lower jaw, coracoid, ilium and femur from the early Tithonian Kcynia Formation.[1] The limited material means that it is difficult to compare Owadowia to its relatives, and it may not be a unique taxon. The genus lacks the features diagnostic to its parent clade Thalassochelydia, has similarities to Solnhofia and Portlandemys as well as being a Late Jurassic marine turtle like the remainder of the group.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Szczygielski . Tomasz . Tyborowski . Daniel . Błażejowski . Błażej . 2018 . A new pancryptodiran turtle from the Late Jurassic of Poland and palaeobiology of early marine turtles . Geological Journal . en . 53 . 3 . 1215–1226 . 10.1002/gj.2952 . 0072-1050.
  2. Anquetin. J.. Püntener. C.. Joyce. W.G.. 2017. A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 58. 2. 317–369. 10.3374/014.058.0205. 31091127.