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 …

A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names

WG Joyce, J Anquetin, EA Cadena, J Claude… - Swiss Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Over the last 25 years, researchers, mostly paleontologists, have developed a system of
rank-free, phylogenetically defined names for the primary clades of turtles. As these names …

Paleogene monsoons across India and South China: Drivers of biotic change

R Spicer, J Yang, A Herman, T Kodrul… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
Monsoonal climates at low latitudes (< 32° N) are an inevitable consequence of seasonal
migrations of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), but the character of these …

Turtle body size evolution is determined by lineage‐specific specializations rather than global trends

BM Farina, PL Godoy, RBJ Benson… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms display a considerable variety of body sizes and shapes, and macroevolutionary
investigations help to understand the evolutionary dynamics behind such variations. Turtles …

Palynological and paleobotanical investigations of Paleogene sections in the Maoming basin, South China

GN Aleksandrova, TM Kodrul, JH Jin - Stratigraphy and Geological …, 2015 - Springer
The complex paleobotanical investigations carried out in the Maoming sedimentary basin
(Guangdong Province, South China) yielded first data on the taxonomic composition and …

Scanning electron microscopy investigations of middle to late Eocene pollen from the Changchang Basin (Hainan Island, South China)–insights into the …

CC Hofmann, TM Kodrul, X Liu, J Jin - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bartonian-aged samples from the Changchang Formation (Hainan) have been
palynologically analyzed using light microscopy (LM) and scanning electron microscopy …

A new alligatoroid (Eusuchia, Crocodylia) from the Eocene of China and its implications for the relationships of Orientalosuchina

H Shan, XC Wu, T Sato, Y Cheng, S Rufolo - Journal of Paleontology, 2021 - cambridge.org
A new crocodylian, Dongnanosuchus hsui n. gen. n. sp., is described mainly based on four
well-preserved skulls from the Eocene Youganwo Formation of the Maoming Basin …

The first discovery of an alligatorid (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea, Alligatoridae) in the Eocene of China

PP Skutschas, IG Danilov, TM Kodrul… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Full article: The first discovery of an alligatorid (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea, Alligatoridae) in the
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A new microvertebrate assemblage from the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation: insights into the paleobiodiversity and paleobiogeography of early …

HM Avrahami, TA Gates, AB Heckert, PJ Makovicky… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
The vertebrate fauna of the Late Cretaceous Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain
Formation has been studied for nearly three decades, yet the fossil-rich unit continues to …

First nimravid skull from Asia

A Averianov, E Obraztsova, I Danilov, P Skutschas… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Maofelis cantonensis gen. and sp. nov. is described based on a complete cranium from the
middle-upper Eocene Youganwo Formation of Maoming Basin, Guangdong Province …