A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru

PO Antoine, MA Abello, S Adnet, AJA Sierra, P Baby… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
We provide a synopsis of~ 60 million years of life history in Neotropical lowlands, based on
a comprehensive survey of the Cenozoic deposits along the Quebrada Cachiyacu near …

A review of the fossil record of basal Mesozoic turtles

WG Joyce - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2017 - BioOne
Turtles (Testudinata) are the clade of amniotes characterized by a complete turtle shell. New
insights into the phylogeny of the group have revealed that a diverse assemblage of fossil …

A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names

WG Joyce, J Anquetin, EA Cadena, J Claude… - Swiss Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Island life in the Cretaceous-faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European …

Z Csiki-Sava, E Buffetaut, A Ősi, X Pereda-Suberbiola… - ZooKeys, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Late Cretaceous was a time of tremendous global change, as the final stages
of the Age of Dinosaurs were shaped by climate and sea level fluctuations and witness to …

A new phylogenetic hypothesis of turtles with implications for the timing and number of evolutionary transitions to marine lifestyles in the group

SW Evers, RBJ Benson - Palaeontology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary transitions to marine habitats occurred frequently among Mesozoic reptiles.
Only one such clade survives to the present: sea turtles (Chelonioidea). Other marine turtles …

Oldest known marine turtle? A new protostegid from the Lower Cretaceous of Colombia

EA Cadena, JF Parham - PaleoBios, 2015 - escholarship.org
Recent studies suggested that many fossil marine turtles might not be closely related to
extant marine turtles (Chelonioidea). The uncertainty surrounding the origin and …

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 …

The uppermost Cretaceous continental deposits at the southern end of Patagonia, the Chorrillo Formation case study (Austral-Magallanes Basin): Sedimentology …

D Moyano-Paz, S Rozadilla, F Agnolin, E Vera… - Cretaceous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The deposits of the Chorrillo Formation (Maastrichtian) were accumulated during a
'continental window'that occurred during the Late Cretaceous in the Austral-Magallanes …

[HTML][HTML] Revision of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae Hocknull et al. 2009 from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia: implications for Gondwanan …

SF Poropat, P Upchurch, PD Mannion, SA Hocknull… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
The osteology of Diamantinasaurus matildae, the most complete Cretaceous sauropod
described from Australia to date, is comprehensively reassessed. The preparation of …