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 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 …

The relationship between bone shell microanatomy and palaeoecology in Testudinata from South America

JM Jannello, IA Cerda, MS de la Fuente - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
Extant turtles exhibit a range of ecological adaptations to terrestrial and pelagic marine
habitats. Bone shell microanatomy, and specifically, qualitative and quantitative approaches …

Phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic implications of Yaminuechelys maior (Staesche, 1929) new comb., a large long-necked chelid turtle from the early Paleocene …

P Bona, MS De La Fuente - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
New and more complete specimens of pleurodiran turtles from the Salamanca Formation
(lower Paleocene) of Patagonia are described. The shell sculpturing, size, and morphology …

Freshwater turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira) in the upper Cretaceous of chilean Patagonia

J Alarcón-Muñoz, S Soto-Acuña… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
We describe remains of freshwater turtles from the Upper Cretaceous of Chilean Patagonia.
The fossils, which comprise isolated shell fragments and incomplete appendicular bones …

[HTML][HTML] Dating the origin and diversification of Pan-Chelidae (Testudines, Pleurodira) under multiple molecular clock approaches

JA Holley, J Sterli, NG Basso - Contributions to Zoology, 2020 - brill.com
Pan-Chelidae (Testudines, Pleurodira) is a group of side-necked turtles with a currently
disjointed distribution in South America and Australasia and characterized by two …

Contribution to the Diversity of the fossil record of turtles (Testudinata) from Chubut Province (Argentina) and its significance in understanding the evolution of turtles in …

J Sterli, E Vlachos, JM Krause, P Puerta, C Oriozabala - 2021 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
In this work we focus on the fossil record of turtles and tortoises from the Chubut Province, in
Patagonia, Argentina. This record is the richest, most diverse, the longest and continuous in …

Reptilian coprolites in the Eocene of central Patagonia, Argentina

JM Krause, CI Piña - Journal of Paleontology, 2012 - cambridge.org
Biogenic structures, herein interpreted as coprolites, were recorded in the? upper
Paleocene–Eocene Las Flores Formation, southeast Argentina. The coprolite origin is …

[HTML][HTML] Long-necked chelid turtles from the Campanian of northwestern Patagonia with comments on K/P survivorship of the genus Yaminuechelys

MS de la Fuente, IJ Maniel, JM Jannello… - Comptes Rendus …, 2015 - Elsevier
The long-necked chelid turtle Yaminuechelys aff. maior is described on the basis of post-
cranial material of two specimens from the Lower–Middle Campanian Anacleto Formation …