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 …

Before humans arrived, giant tortoises occurred on many western Indian Ocean islands. We
combined ancient DNA, phylogenetic, ancestral range, and molecular clock analyses with …

Cerro Patagua is a locality with fossiliferous outcrops of the Cerro Azul Formation in La
Pampa Province (central Argentina). First fossil remains were known in 1999 and assigned …

The giant tortoises of the Galápagos Archipelago influenced Darwin's early thinking on
transmutation and now constitute a famous example of island-based speciation and …

We present 10 nearly complete mitochondrial genomes of the extinct tortoise Chelonoidis
alburyorum from the Bahamas. While our samples represent morphologically distinct …

Although a consensus exists that all living turtles fall within either Pleurodira or Cryptodira
clades, estimating when these lineages split is still under debate. Most molecular studies …

The five extinct giant tortoises of the genus Cylindraspis belong to the most iconic species of
the enigmatic fauna of the Mascarene Islands that went largely extinct after the discovery of …

ABSTRACT The Late Miocene vertebrate fauna from the Entre Ríos Province, Argentina,
comes from two units: the marine Paraná Formation and the Lower Member of Ituzaingó …

We report new occurrences of Testudinidae and Chelidae from 11 different fossil sites in the
Huayquerías and Tunuyán formations (late Miocene–Pliocene) in the Huayquerías del Este …

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 …