Turtles from the Late Pleistocene of Hidalgo and Puebla and their paleobiogeographic and paleoclimatic significance

CI Medina-Castañeda, VM Bravo-Cuevas… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
We describe and identify fossil material of turtles recovered from several Pleistocene
localities of Hidalgo and Puebla. A comparative study with selected specimens of extant and …

Quaternary megafauna extinctions altered body size distribution in tortoises

J Joos, C Pimiento, DB Miles… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The late Quaternary is characterized by the extinction of many terrestrial megafauna, which
included tortoises (Family: Testudinidae). However, limited information is available on how …

Cretaceous turtle tracks from central and southern Mexico

E Jiménez-Hidalgo, R Guerrero-Arenas - Journal of South American Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
Turtle tracks are relatively common in Laurasia during the Mesozoic. In Mexico, Cretaceous
turtle tracks have been reported in Coahuila, Zacatecas, and Puebla. Here we describe 20 …

A new large tortoise from the early Oligocene (Arikareean NALMA) of Oaxaca, southern Mexico and its phylogenetic position within Pan-Testudinidae

G Carbot-Chanona, E Jiménez-Hidalgo… - Historical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Pan-Testudinidae is the total clade of extant terrestrial tortoises, which includes extinct fossil
members of their stem lineage. Members of this clade have a rather scarce fossil record in …

Remains of a sea turtle from the Austin Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian), Coahuila, Mexico

OA López-Conde… - Revista … - … .geologia.unam.mx
Nuevos restos de una tortuga marina de la cantera San Carlos (Cretácico Superior,
Campaniano), Formación Austin en el norte del estado de Coahuila, México, son …

Taxonomía y sistemática de los Testudines del Oligoceno-Mioceno del sur de México

GF Carbot Chanona - 2021 - repositorio.unicach.mx
Las tortugas (clado Testudines) habitan en casi todos los continentes del planeta. En la
actualidad se conocen 356 especies, incluidas en 94 géneros y 14 familias …