Triassic turtles from Pangea: The legacy from South America

The Triassic is a key period in turtle evolution for three main reasons: First, the oldest fully shelled body-fossil records of the clade Testudinata come from Late Triassic (Norian) rocks. Second, tracks attributed putatively to turtles (Chelonipus isp.) are reported from the Early Triassic of Nort...

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Published in:Journal of South American Earth Sciences
Main Authors: de la Fuente, Marcelo Saul, Sterli, Juliana, Krapovickas, Verónica
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/170567