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: 8624244820723