Title
Redescription of the skull of Dacquemys Williams, 1954, a podocnemidid side-necked turtle from the late Eocene of Egypt
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 3372
By
Gaffney, Eugene S.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2002
Notes
Title from caption.
"June 21, 2002."
"The known material of the side-necked turtle Dacquemys paleomorpha Williams, 1954, consists of the type skull and a new skull from the late Eocene of Egypt. Dacquemys is reaffirmed as a member of the Podocnemididae because of its well-developed cavum pterygoideus. Within the Podocnemididae Dacquemys uniquely possesses a fully roofed temporal region produced by a posteriorly extensive parietal and wide supraoccipital, a very wide interorbital area, and two accessory maxillary ridges meeting anteriorly to form an enclosed trough"--P. [1].
Subjects
Dacquemys paleomorpha
,
Egypt
,
Eocene
,
Fayyum (Province)
,
Paleontology
,
Reptiles, Fossil
,
Skull
,
Turtles, Fossil
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.3372, 2002
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2002)372<0001:ROTSOD>2.0.CO;2
OCLC:
50171196
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