Name - Pleurodira

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:154467 [metadata]

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Recent Publications

• First evidence of a bothremydid turtle (crown Pleurodira) in the middle Cretaceous of Castile and Leon (Spain).
• Atolchelys lepida, a new side-necked turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil and the age of crown Pleurodira.
• An early bothremydid from the Arlington Archosaur Site of Texas.
• A new pelomedusoid turtle, Sahonachelys mailakavava, from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar provides evidence for convergent evolution of specialized suction feeding among pleurodires.
• p New biostratigraphic interpretation of the Middle Miocene (Badenian) transgression in the southern margin of the Pannonian Basin (Hrvacani, northern Bosnia, Central Paratethys), based on the fossil assemblages.

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