A review of the fossil record of Old World turtles of the clade Pan-Trionychidae

GL Georgalis, WG Joyce - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural …, 2017 - BioOne
Turtles of the clade Pan-Trionychidae have a rich fossil record in the Old World, ranging from
the Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian) to the Holocene. The clade most probably originated in …

Late Paleogene herpetofaunas from the crossroads between two continents–new amphibian and reptile remains from the Oligocene of southern Balkans and Anatolia

GL Georgalis, A Čerňanský, S Mayda - Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2021 - zora.uzh.ch
We describe here new amphibian and reptile remains from three Oligocene localities of
Turkey. Two of the localities (Kavakdere and Kocayarma) are situated in southeastern …

Two major extinction events in the evolutionary history of turtles: one caused by an asteroid, the other by hominins

AG Pereira, A Antonelli, D Silvestro… - The American …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We live in a time of accelerated biological extinctions that has the potential to mirror past
mass extinction events. However, the rarity of mass extinctions and the restructuring of …

New cranial material of Gilmoremys lancensis (Testudines, Trionychidae) from the Hell Creek Formation of southeastern Montana, USA

WG Joyce, TR Lyson, S Williams - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Plastomenidae is a speciose clade of soft-shelled turtles (Trionychidae) known from
Campanian to Eocene deposits throughout western North America. We here describe two …

Redescription of the skull of 'Trionyx' kyrgyzensis and improved phylogenetic taxon sampling of Cretaceous and Palaeogene soft-shelled turtles (Trionychidae) of …

NS Vitek, IG Danilov, Y Nakajima… - Journal of Systematic …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Although fossils of Trionychidae are found as far back as the Early Cretaceous, their
evolutionary history, including the origin of the crown clade, is poorly understood. Here, we …

A new cryptodire from the Eocene of the Na Duong Basin (northern Vietnam) sheds new light on Pan-Trionychidae from Southeast Asia

T Massonne, FJ Augustin, AT Matzke… - Journal of Systematic …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Striatochelys baba gen. et sp. nov. is a new pan-trionychid from the middle–upper Eocene
(late Bartonian–Priabonian, 39–35 Ma) of the Na Duong Basin in northern Vietnam. It …

The Crocodylian, Bird and Turtle Fauna from the Late Eocene Na Duong Basin of Vietnam

T Massonne - 2024 - tobias-lib.ub.uni-tuebingen.de
At the end of the Eocene, there was a major cooling of the Earth, which subsequently led to
a great mass extinction, the so-called 'Grande Coupure'. To learn more about the faunal …