Title
Cranial morphology of the baenid turtles
Title Variants
Alternative:
Baenid turtles
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 2737
By
Gaffney, Eugene S.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1982
Notes
Title from caption.
"June 29, 1982."
"The family Baenidae is a group of extinct cryptodiran turtles known from more than a dozen well-preserved skulls from the Cretaceous, Paleocene, and Eocene. The baenid skull is characterized by sigificant generalized features in the skull roof and basicranium that are consistent with their hypothesized relationship as the sister group to the living cryptodires, the Eucryptodira. The arterial canals of the skull are preserved in enough specimens to conclude that baenids had an arterial pattern characterized by a large and well-developed canalis stapedio-temporalis and a small but persistent canalis caroticus lateralis"--P. [1].
Subjects
Anatomy
,
Baenidae
,
Skull
,
Turtles
,
Turtles, Fossil
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.2737, 1982
Language
English
Identifiers
OCLC:
8624244
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