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A Review of the Fossil Record of North American Turtles of the Clade Pan-Testudinoidea
(Yale University. Peabody Museum Natural History, 2018-04)
Turtles of the clade Pan-Testudinoidea have a rich fossil record in North America, including the Caribbean, ranging from the late Paleocene to the Holocene. All earlier reports cannot be substantiated herein. The earliest ...
Pleistocene Fossil Turtles (Testudinoidea, Cryptodira) from the Talara Tar Seeps, PeruTortugas fósiles (Testudinoidea, Cryptodira) del Pleistoceno del yacimiento de brea de Talara, Perú
(Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, 2019)
Testudinoidea Fitzinger (Testudines: Cryptodira) de la Formación Toropí/ Yupoí (ca. 58-28ka) en la provincia de Corrientes, Argentina: taxonomía y aspectos paleoambientalesTestudinoidea Fitzinger (Testudines: cryptodira) of the Toropí/Yupoí Formation (ca. 58-28 ka) in the province of Corrientes, Argentina: taxonomy and paleoenvironmental
(Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia, 2014-12)
Os testudinoideos recuperados da Formação Toropí/Yupoí (ca. 58-28 ka) estão representados por testudinídeos e emidídeos. Estes foram coletados em duas localidades (Província de Corrientes, Argentina): Arroyo Toropí e Santa ...
A review of the fossil record of South American turtles of the Clade Testudinoidea
(Yale University. Peabody Museum Natural History, 2018-10)
The fossil record of turtles of the clade Testudinoidea is generally poor in South America. Fossil tortoises (Testudinidae) are known from the Late Oligocene to Holocene, but they likely arrived from Africa during the Late ...
Pleistocene fossil turtles (Testudinoidea, cryptodira) from the Talara Tar seeps, Peru
A description of Pleistocene fossil turtles discovered in the Talara Tar Seeps, Tablazos deposits of the northern coast of Peru is provided in this paper. The specimens are mostly fragmentary plates of carapaces and plastra ...
Comparative neuroanatomy of extinct horned turtles (Meiolaniidae) and extant terrestrial turtles (testudinidae), with comments on the palaeobiological implications of selected endocranial features
(Oxford University Press, 2017-08)
Turtles are one of the least explored clades of reptiles with respect to palaeoneuroanatomy. Few detailed descriptions of endocranial features such as the brain morphology or inner ear exist for extant and extinct forms. ...
Total evidence analysis and body size evolution of extant and extinct tortoises (Testudines: Cryptodira: Pan-Testudinidae)
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2018-12)
Testudinidae (tortoises) is an extant clade of terrestrial turtles of worldwide distribution and with a rich fossil record that provides an exceptional context for studying their evolutionary history. Because of the lack ...
The turtles from ‘Gilmore’s slab’: evolution and diversity of the extinct turtle Echmatemys (Testudines: Testudinoidea: Geoemydidae) from the central United States
(Wiley, 2020-04)
This contribution presents a complete revision of the extinct geoemydid Echmatemys from North America, based on new information and a re-evaluation of previously published specimens. Echmatemys is the most diverse and ...