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Fossil turtles

 

 

• A Divergence Dating Analysis of Turtles Using Fossil Calibrations: An Example of Best Practices
• A Neglected Lineage of North American Turtle Fills A Major Gap in the Fossil Record
• A New Baenid Turtle From the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota and a Preliminary Taxonomic Review of Cretaceous Baenidae
• A New Box Turtle From the Miocene/Pliocene Boundary (Latest Hemphillian) of Oklahoma and a Refined Chronology of Box Turtle Diversification
• A new freshwater basal eucryptodiran turtle from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain
• A New Genus Of Lindholmemydid Turtle (Testudines: Testudinoidea) From The Late Cretaceous Of The Amur River Region, Russia
• A New Kinosternoid From the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation Of North Dakota and Montana and the Origin of the Dermatemys Mawii Lineage
• A New Lindholmemydid Turtle (Testudines: Lindholmemydidae) From The Bayn Shire Formation (Late Cretaceous) Of Mongolia
• A New Lindholmemydid Genus (Testudines: Lindholmemydidae) From The Mid-cretaceous Of Uzbekistan
• A New Species of Palatobaena (Testudines: Baenidae) and a Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis of Baenidae
• A new species of soft-shelled turtle from the Middle Eocene of Ukraine
• A new turtle species of Brodiechelys from the Early Cretaceous of Spain: Systematic and palaeobiogeographic implications
• A Revision Of Plesiobaena (Testudines: Baenidae) and an Assessment of Baenid Ecology Across the K/T Boundary
• An Enormous Jurassic Turtle Bone Bed From The Turpan Basin Of Xinjiang, China
• Boremys (Testudines, Baenidae) From the Latest Cretaceous and Early Paleocene of North Dakota: An 11-Million-Year Range Extension and an Additional K/T Survivor
• Carapace bone histology in the giant pleurodiran turtle Stupendemys geographicus: Phylogeny and function
• Charles University Prague, Czech Republic - Palaeoherpetology and Evolutionary Morphology Group
• Comparative cranial morphology of Recent and fossil turtles
• Cranial Anatomy and Phylogenetic Placement of the Enigmatic Turtle Compsemys Victa Leidy, 1856
• Cranial anatomy of the Early Jurassic turtle Kayentachelys aprix
• Dental pattern of the dormice Dryomys, Myomimus, Microdyromys and Peridyromys
• Description And Phylogenetic Position Of A New Nanhsiungchelyid Turtle From The Late Cretaceous Of Mongolia
• Distribution And Biogeography Of Non-marine Cretaceous Turtles
• Early Vallesian vertebrates of Atzelsdorf (Late Miocene, Austria) 4. Testudines
• European Early Cretaceous cryptodiran turtle Chitracephalus dumonii and the diversity of a poorly known lineage of turtles
• Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell
• Giant Fossil Soft-shelled Turtles Of North America
• Girdles of the Oldest Fossil Turtle, Proterochersis robusta, and the Age of the Turtle Crown
• Glarichelys Knorri (Gray) - A Cheloniid From Carpathian Menilitic Shales (Poland)
• Incorporating Phylogenetic Uncertainty On Phylogeny-based Palaeontological Dating And The Timing Of Turtle Diversification
• Kirgizemys (Testudines, Macrobaenidae): New Material From the Lower Cretaceous Of Buryatia (Russia) and Taxonomic Revision
• Neuroanatomy Of The Marine Jurassic Turtle Plesiochelys Etalloni (Testudinata, Plesiochelyidae)
• New Data On Lindholmemydid Turtle Lindholmemys From The Late Cretaceous Of Mongolia
• New Data On The Soft-shelled Turtles From The Upper Cretaceous Kyrkkuduk I Locality Of Southern Kazakhstan
• New Data On The Turtles From The Early Eocene of Kirghizia
• New Material And A Revision Of Turtles Of The Genus Adocus (Adocidae) From The Late Cretaceous Of Middle Asia And Kazakhstan
• Oldest African Eucryptodiran Turtle From The Cretaceous Of Angola
• Phylogenetic Relationships Among Extinct And Extant Turtles: The Position Of Pleurodira And The Effects Of The Fossils On Rooting Crown-group Turtles
• Preliminary Overview Of Late Cretaceous Turtle Diversity In Eastern Central Europe (Austria, Hungary, And Romania)
• Presence of several clades of continental turtles in the Lutetian (Middle Eocene) of the Sobrarbe Formation (Ainsa Basin, South-Central Pyrenees, Northeast Spain)
• Sankuchemys, A New Side-necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Bothremydidae) From The Late Cretaceous Of India
• Transitional Fossils and the Origin of Turtles
• Turtle remains (Testudines, Chelonioidea) from the Middle Turonian of northwest Germany
• Turtles All the Way Down: Loggerheads at the Root of the Chelonian Tree
• Turtles Of The Genus Ferganemys Nessov Et Khosatzky, 1977 (Adocidae): Shell Morphology And Phylogenetic Position
• Two New Plastomenine Softshell Turtles From The Paleocene Of Montana And Wyoming

Books about fossil turtles

	The Fossil Turtles of North America n this treatise on the Fossil Turtles of North America there are described 266 species, of which 76 are regarded as hitherto unknown to science. In the preparation of this work the writer has had access to most of the collections which contain remains of North American fossil turtles. The most important of these collections is that of the American Museum of Natural History, inN ew York. In this are found many of the specimens described by Professor E. D. Cope, including many of his types. In addition to these, large numbers of turtles have been brought together by the expeditions sent out by this museum during the past fifteen years.
	Sea Turtles: Past and Present Discusses the prehistoric ancestors, evolution, modern species, life cycle, and endangered status of sea turtles.
	Morphology and Evolution of Turtles This volume celebrates the contributions of Dr. Eugene Gaffney to the study of turtles, through a diverse and complementary collection of papers that showcases the latest research on one of the most intriguing groups of reptiles. A mix of focused and review papers deals with numerous aspects of the evolutionary history of turtles, including embryonic development, origins, early diversification, phylogenetic relationships, and biogeography. Moreover it includes reports on important but poorly understood fossil turtle assemblages, provides historical perspectives on turtle research, and documents disease and variation in turtles. With its broad scope, which includes descriptions of material and new taxa from Australia, Asia, and Europe, as well as North and South America, this work will be an essential resource for anyone interested in the morphology and evolution of turtles.