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