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 …

A review of the fossil record of Afro-Arabian turtles of the clade Testudinoidea

GL Georgalis, L Macaluso, M Delfino - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of …, 2021 - BioOne
Turtles of the clade Testudinoidea have a rather scarce fossil record in Afro-Arabia, ranging
from the late Eocene up to the Quaternary. The vast majority of testudinoid fossils from Afro …

Thecal and epithecal ossifications of the turtle shell: ontogenetic and phylogenetic aspects

G Cherepanov, I Danilov - Journal of Morphology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The problem of the origin of the bony shell in turtles has a two‐century history and still has
not lost its relevance. First, this concerns the issues of the homology, the sources of …

Northernmost occurrences of plesiosaurs and turtles in the Upper Cretaceous of Eurasia

NG Zverkov, MA Rogov, VA Zakharov, IG Danilov… - Cretaceous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Here we describe the first findings of reptile remains in the Upper Cretaceous marine strata
of Siberia, which represent the northernmost occurrences of plesiosaurians,? mosasaurids …

Xinjiangchelyid turtles from the Middle Jurassic of the Berezovsk coal mine (Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia): systematics, skeletal morphology, variation, relationships …

EM Obraztsova, SA Krasnolutskii… - Journal of Systematic …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper is devoted to the description of a new species of xinjiangchelyid turtle–Annemys
variabilis sp. nov.–represented by thousands of isolated bones and several more complete …

The most complete extinct species of Testudo (Testudines, Testudinidae) defined by several well-preserved skeletons from the late Miocene of Romania

A Pérez-García, M Martín-Jiménez… - Journal of Systematic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The genus Testudo was considered, for more than two centuries, to group almost all
tortoises that are part of current biodiversity (ie the members of Testudinidae), as well as the …

A Revision of the Palaeocene–Eocene Mongolian Presbyornithidae (Aves: Anseriformes)

NV Zelenkov - Paleontological Journal, 2021 - Springer
Remains of the stem anseriforms Presbyornithidae dominate among the avian material from
the Tsagaan-Khushu locality in southern Mongolia (Naran-Bulak Formation; upper …

Protostega gigas and other sea turtles from the Campanian of Eastern Europe, Russia

IG Danilov, EM Obraztsova, MS Arkhangelsky… - Cretaceous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Campanian Beloe Ozero locality within the Rybushka Formation in Saratov
Province, Russia, produces numerous isolated bones of sea turtles (clade Pan …

An unusual new sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

AO Averianov, AV Lopatin - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
A new sauropod, Abdarainurus barsboldi gen. et sp. nov., is described based on several
anterior and one middle caudal vertebrae and chevrons from the Late Cretaceous Alagteeg …

Yakemys multiporcata ngn sp., a Large Macrobaenid Turtle from the Basal Cretaceous of Thailand, with a Review of the Turtle Fauna from the Phu Kradung …

H Tong, P Chanthasit, W Naksri, P Ditbanjong… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
Yakemys multiporcata ngn sp. is described on the basis of shell elements from the upper
part of the Phu Kradung Formation (basal Cretaceous), Khorat Plateau, NE Thailand and …