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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …