Correction: Neuroanatomy of the Marine Jurassic Turtle Plesiochelys etalloni (Testudinata, Plesiochelyidae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069264.].
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The Triassic turtle of Thailand - revision of 'Proganochelys' ruchae. [PDF]
PLoS ONETrue turtles (Testudinata) appeared in the Norian (Late Triassic) and quickly attained a worldwide distribution and relatively high diversity. Their remains are currently known from that time from Asia, Europe, North America, and South America, and ...
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Still slow, but even steadier: an update on the evolution of turtle cranial disparity interpolating shapes along branches [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 In a previous study, we estimated the cranial disparity of turtles (Testudinata) through time using geometric morphometric data from both terminal taxa and hypothetical ancestors to compensate for temporal gaps in the fossil record.
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The evolution of dermal shield vascularization in Testudinata and Pseudosuchia: phylogenetic constraints versus ecophysiological adaptations [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020 Studies on living turtles have demonstrated that shells are involved in the resistance to hypoxia during apnea via bone acidosis buffering; a process which is complemented with cutaneous respiration, transpharyngeal and cloacal gas exchanges in the soft-shell turtles.
François Clarac +4 more
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Shell biomechanics suggests an aquatic palaeoecology at the dawn of turtle evolution [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe turtle shell is a remarkable structure that has intrigued not only evolutionary biologists but also engineering and material scientists because of its multi-scale complexity and various functions.
Gabriel S. Ferreira +4 more
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A revised turtle assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation (New Mexico, North America) with evolutionary and paleobiostratigraphic implications [PDF]
PeerJThe middle Campanian Menefee Formation (Fm.) of the San Juan Basin of New Mexico is a relatively understudied terrestrial deposit in southern Laramidia preceding the fossil-rich upper Campanian Fruitland and Kirtland formations that have been studied for
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Shell variability in the stem turtles Proterochersis spp. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Turtle shells tend to exhibit frequent and substantial variability, both in bone and scute layout. Aside from secondary changes, caused by diseases, parasites, and trauma, this variability appears to be inherent and result from stochastic or ...
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A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2021 Over the last 25 years, researchers, mostly paleontologists, have developed a system of rank-free, phylogenetically defined names for the primary clades of turtles.
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Evolution of Diversity in the Auditory Papillae of Reptiles
Diversity, 2023 The independent origins of middle ears in testudinates, lepidosaurs, and archosaurs in the Triassic led to lineage-specific developments in their auditory epithelia.
Geoffrey A. Manley
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Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2021 We study the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) turtle Uluops uluops using micro-computed tomography scans to investigate the cranial anatomy of paracryptodires, and provide new insights into the evolution of the internal carotid artery and facial nerve systems ...
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