The last marine pelomedusoids (Testudines:Pleurodira): a new species ofBairdemysand the paleoecology ofStereogenyina (original) (raw)

“…However, they show a hyaline tolerance, being morphologically partly adapted to marine locomotion (Renous et al, 2008). Through this means, Erymnochelyinae spread to America where it is represented by several species of Bairdemys Gaffney and Wood, 2002, identified from the upper Oligocene (early Chattian) record of South Carolina and the Mio-Pliocene of Maryland, Puerto Rico and Venezuela (Gaffney et al, 2011;Weems and Knight, 2013;Ferreira et al, 2015). In Western Asia, Erymnochelyinae is represented by the lower Miocene (Burdigalian) species Brontochelys gaffneyi (Wood, 1970) from Pakistan, and the Plio-Pleistocene Shweboemys pilgrimi Swinton, 1939 from Myanmar (Burma) (Wood, 1970;Gaffney et al, 2011;Barbière and Marivaux, 2015), species which might also have spread from Africa, following the coasts.…”

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“…However, they show a hyaline tolerance, being morphologically partly adapted to marine locomotion (Renous et al, 2008). Through this means, Erymnochelyinae spread to America where it is represented by several species of Bairdemys Gaffney and Wood, 2002, identified from the upper Oligocene (early Chattian) record of South Carolina and the Mio-Pliocene of Maryland, Puerto Rico and Venezuela (Gaffney et al, 2011;Weems and Knight, 2013;Ferreira et al, 2015). In Western Asia, Erymnochelyinae is represented by the lower Miocene (Burdigalian) species Brontochelys gaffneyi (Wood, 1970) from Pakistan, and the Plio-Pleistocene Shweboemys pilgrimi Swinton, 1939 from Myanmar (Burma) (Wood, 1970;Gaffney et al, 2011;Barbière and Marivaux, 2015), species which might also have spread from Africa, following the coasts.…”

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“…These taxa are Neochelys spp., 'Stereogenys' libyca, Albertwoodemys testudinum and 'Ste-reogenys' podocnemoides. 'Stereogenys' libyca is separated from the Shweboemys group sensu Broin (1988) and Lapparent de Broin (2000b) (i.e., Sterogenyina sensu Gaffney et al, 2011;Cadena, 2015a;Ferreira et al, 2015) by the continental shell pattern. No skull attributed to 'Stereogenys' libyca is known.…”

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“…[ 12 – 14 ]), as well as taxa adapted to marine (at least coastal) environments (e.g. [ 12 , 15 , 16 ]). The crown group includes three lineages with extant representatives, Chelidae, Pelomedusidae and Podocnemididae, and three extinct groups, Araripemydidae, Euraxemyidade and Bothremydidae [ 12 , 13 , 17 ].…”

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