| Meiolaniformes Temporal range: Early Cretaceous to Holocene
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| Meiolania | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | Perichelydia |
| Clade: | †Meiolaniformes Sterli and de la Fuente, 2013 |
| Families and genera | |
Meiolaniformes is an extinct clade of stem-group turtles, defined as all taxa more closely related to Meiolania than to Cryptodira and Pleurodira.[1][2][3] It is known from the Early Cretaceous to the Holocene of Australia, Oceania and South America. Some Eurasian taxa have been suggested to be part of the group, but this is disputed.
The oldest member of Meiolaniformes is Australian Early Cretaceous Otwayemys.[3]
- ^ Sterli, Juliana; de la Fuente, Marcelo S. (2012-12-12). "New evidence from the Palaeocene of Patagonia (Argentina) on the evolution and palaeo-biogeography of Meiolaniformes (Testudinata, new taxon name)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (7): 835–852. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.708674. hdl:11336/3254. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 83804365.
- ^ J. Sterli. 2015. A Review of the Fossil Record of Gondwanan Turtles of the Clade Meiolaniformes. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56(1):21-45
- ^ a b Hans-Dieter Sues (August 6, 2019). The Rise of Reptiles. 320 Million Years of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 53. ISBN 9781421428680.