A review of the fossil turtles of Australia

Title Variants

Alternative: Fossil turtles

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2720

By

Gaffney, Eugene S.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1981

Notes

Title from caption.

"December 3, 1981."

"The Australian fossil record has yielded sparse but identifiable specimens of Trionychidae (?Miocene-Recent), Carretochelyidae (Pliocene-Recent), Chelidae (Micoene-Recent), Chelonioidea (Cretaceous-Recent), and Meiolaniidae (Miocene-Pleistocene). As is the case with the Recent turtle fauna, the side-necked chelids are the most common and most widespread fossil turtles. With the possible exception of the poorly known Cretaceous Chelycarapookus, the meiolaniids are the only major group present in the fossil record that is not represented in the Recent Australasian fauna. Various new taxa of chelids reported by De Vis around the turn of the century are not diagnosable beyond family. There are no extinct chelid species that can be substantiated at present"--P. [1].

Subjects

Australia , Paleontology , Reptiles, Fossil , Turtles, Fossil

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2720, 1981

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 8240881820312