Name - Protostegidae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:247770 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Protostegidae Cope 1872

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Shark-bitten protostegid turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk, Alabama.
• Upper Albian chelonioid turtles from Poland.
• Protostegid marine turtle remains from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of the Kassenberg (Mulheim an der Ruhr, Western Germany).
• A new phylogenetic hypothesis of turtles with implications for the timing and number of evolutionary transitions to marine lifestyles in the group.
• A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names.

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