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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
| Genus: | †Owadowia Szczygielski et al., 2017 |
| Species: | †O. borsukbialynickae
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| †Owadowia borsukbialynickae Szczygielski et al., 2017
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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]
- ^ 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. 53 (3): 1215–1226. doi:10.1002/gj.2952. ISSN 0072-1050.
- ^ Anquetin, J.; Püntener, C.; Joyce, W.G. (2017). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 58 (2): 317–369. doi:10.3374/014.058.0205. S2CID 31091127.