Showing posts with label Cryptodira. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cryptodira. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

[Herpetology • 2017] Trachemys medemi n. sp. from northwestern Colombia turns the Biogeography of South American Slider Turtles Upside Down ---ScRaBBlE

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Trachemys medemi Vargas-Ramírez, del Valle, Ceballos & Fritz , 2017 DOI:  10.1111/jzs.12179   Abstract South America was invaded by slid...

[Paleontology • 2017] A Jurassic Stem Pleurodire, Platychelys oberndorferi, Sheds Light on the Functional Origin of Neck Retraction in Turtles ---ScRaBBlE

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Platychelys oberndorferi  Wagner, 1853 Life  reconstruction represents  Platychelys oberndorferi  as a fast ram feeder and emphasizes the re...

[Paleontology • 2017] Owadowia borsukbialynickae • A New Pancryptodiran Turtle from the Late Jurassic of Poland and Palaeobiology of Early Marine Turtles ---ScRaBBlE

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  Owadowia borsukbialynickae Szczygielski, Tyborowski & Błażejowski, 2017 DOI:  10.1002/gj.2952   Abstract Although Western Europe has y...

[Paleontology • 2018] Peritresius martini • A New Species of Peritresius Leidy, 1856 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alabama, USA, and the Occurrence of the Genus within the Mississippi Embayment of North America ---ScRaBBlE

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Peritresius martini   Gentry, Parham, Ehret & Ebersole, 2018    DOI:  10.1371/journal.pone.0195651   Abstract Late Cretaceous members o...

[Herpetology • 2018] Kinosternon vogti • A Distinctive New Species of Mud Turtle from Western México ---ScRaBBlE

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  Kinosternon vogti  López-Luna, Cupul-Magaña, Escobedo-Galván, González-Hernández, Centenero-Alcalá, Rangel-Mendoza, Ramírez-Ramírez & ...

[Paleontology • 2018] Trachemys haugrudi • A New Slider Turtle (Testudines: Emydidae: Deirochelyinae) from the late Hemphillian (late Miocene/early Pliocene) of eastern Tennessee and the Evolution of the Deirochelyines ---ScRaBBlE

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Trachemys haugrudi   Jasinski, 2018 DOI:  10.7717/peerj.4338   Artwork by Mary P. Williams Abstract Trachemys (Testudines: Emydidae) represe...