Screen LibraryMorphology and evolution of turtles /
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4309-0 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9789400743090 (electronic bk.) 9400743092 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | QE862 |
| CLC: | Q959.6-532 |
| Contents: |
Perspectives on the Life and Accomplishments of Eugene S. Gaffney -- Eugene S. Gaffney: A Professional Biography and Bibliography / Autobiography (Through May 2009) / The Origin of Turtles -- Problems of the Ancestry of Turtles / Origin of the Turtle Body Plan: The Folding Theory to Illustrate Turtle-Specific Developmental Repatterning / The Evolution of the Turtle Shell / Three Ways to Tackle the Turtle: Integrating Fossils, Comparative Embryology, and Microanatomy / Geometric and Developmental Perspectives on the Evolution of the Skull and Internal Carotid Circulation in Turtles / The Early Diversification of Turtles -- New Material of the Platychelyid Turtle Notoemyszapatocaensis from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia; Implications for Understanding Pleurodira Evolution / Spoochelys ormondea gen. et sp. nov., an Archaic Meiolaniid-Like Turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, Australia / Turtles from the Jurassic Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, People's Republic of China, with Comments on the Basicranial Region of Basal Eucryptodires / Rediscovery of the Carapace of the Lost Holotype of the Purbeck Turtle Cheloneobovata Owen 1842 / Kappachelys okurai gen. et sp. nov., a New Stem Soft-Shelled Turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Japan / Morphology and Relationships of Brachyopsemys tingitana gen. et sp. nov. from the Early Paleocene of Morocco and Recognition of the New Eucryptodiran Turtle Family: Sandownidae / Pleurodire Diversity and Biogeography -- A New Long-Necked Turtle, Laganemys tenerensis (Pleurodira: Araripemydidae), from the Elrhaz Formation (Aptian-Albian) of Niger / Two Synchronic and Sympatric Bothremydidae Taxa (Chelonii, Pleurodira) in the Late Cretaceous Site of "Lo Hueco" (Cuenca, Spain) / New Information about Pelomedusoides (Testudines: Pleurodira) from the Cretaceous of Brazil / Nostimochelonelampra gen. et sp. nov., an Enigmatic New Podocnemidoidean Turtle from the Early Miocene of Northern Greece / A New Species of Bairdemys (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Oligocene (Early Chattian) Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina, USA, and Its Paleobiogeographic Implications for the Genus / Diversity, Biogeography, and Paleobiology of Late Cretaceous and Tertiary Turtles -- Preliminary Overview of Late Cretaceous Turtle Diversity in Eastern Central Europe (Austria, Hungary, and Romania) / Re-Assessment of Late Campanian (Kirtlandian) Turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland Formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA / A New Species of Neurankylus from the Milk River Formation (Cretaceous: Santonian) of Alberta, Canada, and a Revision of the Type Species N. eximius / Redescription of Zangerlia dzamynchondi (Testudines: Nanhsiungchelyidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, with a Reassessment of the Phylogenetic Position and Relationships of Zangerlia / Cretaceous Trionychids of Asia: An Expanded Review of Their Record and Biogeography / Fossil European Sea Turtles: A Historical Perspective / Fossil Kinosternidae from the Oligocene and Miocene of Florida, USA / New Turtles from the Paleogene of North America / Pathologies, Anomalies, and Variation in Turtle Skeletons -- Osseous and Other Hard Tissue Pathologies in Turtles and Abnormalities of Mineral Deposition / Morphological Variation in the Carapace and Plastron of Terrapenecoahuila Schmidt and Owens 1944 / |