Title
Fossil chelid turtles of Australia
Title Variants
Alternative:
Chelid turtles
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 2681
By
Gaffney, Eugene S.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1979
Notes
Title from caption.
"August 7, 1979."
"Miocene freshwater deposits in the Tirari Desert region of South Australia have yielded the first skull material of chelid turtles in the fossil record. Partial skulls consisting of well preserved but disarticulated elements are very similar to the Recent genus Emydura, hypothesized by Gaffney (1977) as one of the more plesiomorphic of the Recent chelids. Well-preserved shells, cervical vertebrae, and limb elements are also consistent with this identification"--P. [1].
Subjects
Australia
,
Chelidae
,
Miocene
,
Paleontology
,
Reptiles, Fossil
,
South Australia
,
Turtles, Fossil
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.2681, 1979
Language
English
Identifiers
LCCN:
https://lccn.loc.gov/80108473
OCLC:
7462632
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