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 review of the fossil record of New World turtles of the clade Pan-Trionychidae

NS Vitek, WG Joyce - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2015 - BioOne
Turtles of the clade Pan-Trionychidae have a rich, but fragmentary fossil record in the New
World, ranging from the Late Cretaceous to the Holocene. The clade immigrated to North …

[HTML][HTML] Cranial and mandibular anatomy of Plastomenus thomasii and a new time-tree of trionychid evolution

SW Evers, KEJ Chapelle, WG Joyce - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2023 - Springer
Trionychid (softshell) turtles have a peculiar bauplan, which includes shell reductions and
cranial elongation. Despite a rich fossil record dating back to the Early Cretaceous, the …

[HTML][HTML] Review of taxonomy, geographic distribution, and paleoenvironments of Azhdarchidae (Pterosauria)

A Averianov - ZooKeys, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The taxonomy, geographic distribution, and paleoenvironmental context of azhdarchid
pterosaurs are reviewed. All purported pteranodontid, tapejarid, and azhdarchid specimens …

[HTML][HTML] The Late Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages of western Kazakhstan

AO Averianov, IG Danilov, PP Skutschas… - … Mexico Museum of …, 2016 - books.google.com
Late in the western Kazakhstan Cretaceous region vertebrates northeast are known of the
Aral from Sea. the Turonian The Zhirkindek Zhirkindek vertebrate and Santonian …

Soft-shelled turtles (Trionychidae) from the Cenomanian of Uzbekistan

NS Vitek, IG Danilov - Cretaceous Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Localities from the Cenomanian of Uzbekistan are the oldest in Middle Asia and Kazakhstan
to preserve two broadly sympatric species of trionychid turtle. Material described here comes …

Redescription of the skull of 'Trionyx' kyrgyzensis and improved phylogenetic taxon sampling of Cretaceous and Palaeogene soft-shelled turtles (Trionychidae) of …

NS Vitek, IG Danilov, Y Nakajima… - Journal of Systematic …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

A new soft-shelled trionychid turtle of the genus Khunnuchelys from the Upper Cretaceous Bostobe Formation of Kazakhstan

IG Danilov, NS Vitek, AO Averianov… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2015 - BioOne
Previously unpublished trionychid turtle material from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian—
lower Campanian) Bostobe Formation from the Baybishe and Baykhozha localities in …

Taxonomic position of Oxemys gutta Nessov, 1977, a problematic turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan, and basisphenoid morphology in some groups of …

IG Danilov, EM Obraztsova - Paleontological Journal, 2015 - Springer
The holotype (basisphenoid) of Oxemys gutta Nessov, 1977, a problematic skull-based turtle
taxon from the Khodzhakul Formation (Lower Cenomanian, Upper Cretaceous, Uzbekistan) …

[PDF][PDF] THE LATE CRETACEOUS VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES OF WESTERN KAZAKHSTAN

Late Cretaceous vertebrates are known from the Turonian Zhirkindek and Santonian
Bostobe formations in the western Kazakhstan region northeast of the Aral Sea. The …