A review of the fossil record of turtles of the clade Pan-Chelidae

IJ Maniel, MS de la Fuente - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural …, 2016 - BioOne
Turtles of the total Clade Pan-Chelidae have a relatively poor fossil record, which is
completely restricted from the Early Cretaceous to Recent of South America and Australasia …

A divergence dating analysis of turtles using fossil calibrations: an example of best practices

WG Joyce, JF Parham, TR Lyson… - Journal of …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Turtles have served as a model system for molecular divergence dating studies using fossil
calibrations. However, because some parts of the fossil record of turtles are very well known …

New age constraints for the Salamanca Formation and lower Río Chico Group in the western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for Cretaceous …

WC Clyde, P Wilf, A Iglesias, RL Slingerland… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A detailed Re-Os molybdenite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite geochronology at five shear-hosted
Au occurrences (Kenge, Mbenge, Porcupine, Konokono, and Dubwana) in the Lupa …

A toothed turtle from the Late Jurassic of China and the global biogeographic history of turtles

WG Joyce, M Rabi, JM Clark, X Xu - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background Turtles (Testudinata) are a successful lineage of vertebrates with about
350 extant species that inhabit all major oceans and landmasses with tropical to temperate …

Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification patterns of side-necked turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira)

GS Ferreira, M Bronzati… - Royal Society Open …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Pleurodires or side-necked turtles are today restricted to freshwater environments of South
America, Africa–Madagascar and Australia, but in the past they were distributed much more …

New evidence from the Palaeocene of Patagonia (Argentina) on the evolution and palaeo-biogeography of Meiolaniformes (Testudinata, new taxon name)

J Sterli, MS de la Fuente - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Peligrochelys walshae gen. et sp. nov. is a new stem turtle closely related to the clade
Meiolaniidae found in the Palaeocene levels of the Salamanca Formation (Maastrichtian …

Late Cretaceous reptilian biota of the La Colonia Formation, central Patagonia, Argentina: Occurrences, preservation and paleoenvironments

Z Gasparini, J Sterli, A Parras, JP O'Gorman… - Cretaceous …, 2015 - Elsevier
Cropping out on the southeastern margin of the Somún Curá Plateau, the La Colonia
Formation (Campanian–Maastrichtian) has yielded, over the last several decades, a varied …

A new pelomedusoid turtle, Sahonachelys mailakavava, from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar provides evidence for convergent evolution of specialized suction …

WG Joyce, Y Rollot, SW Evers… - Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Maevarano Formation in northwestern Madagascar has yielded a series of exceptional
fossils over the course of the last three decades that provide important insights into the …

The youngest South American rhynchocephalian, a survivor of the K/Pg extinction

S Apesteguía, RO Gómez… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Rhynchocephalian lepidosaurs, though once widespread worldwide, are represented today
only by the tuatara (Sphenodon) of New Zealand. After their apparent early Cretaceous …

[HTML][HTML] The last marine pelomedusoids (Testudines: Pleurodira): a new species of Bairdemys and the paleoecology of Stereogenyina

GS Ferreira, AD Rincon, A Solorzano, MC Langer - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
The extinct Stereogenyina turtles form a relatively diverse Podocnemididae lineage, with
twelve described and phylogenetically positioned species. They are characterized by a wide …