Named By: | Richard Owen 1886 |
Time Period: | mid Miocene-Holocene |
Location: | Australia and some of the outlying islands including as New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island and Vanuatu amongst others. Possibly Viti Levu |
Size: | Up to 2.5 meters long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Numerous specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Testudines | Cryptodira | Meiolaniidae | |
Also known as: | | Miolania | Ceratochelys | |
Meiolania ("small roamer") is an extinct genus of basal turtle from the Middle Miocene to Holocene, with the last relict populations at New Caledonia which survived until 3,000 years ago.