Meiolania platyceps Owen
Abundant skeletal remains of a strange extinct horned turtle have been recovered from several sites on Lord Howe Island, Tasman Sea, 600 km NE of Sydney. They are found in ancient coral-sand rock (calcarenite) of Late Pleistocene age (25,000-100,000 years old). From these remains, which include several complete skulls, Dr Eugene Gaffney, American Museum of Natural History, New York, has been able to reconstruct the entire skeleton.