Solnhofia parsonsi, a new cryptodiran turtle from the late Jurassic of Europe

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2576

By

Gaffney, Eugene S.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1975

Notes

Title from caption.

"May 12, 1975."

"Solnhofia parsonsi is a new genus and species of turtle based on skull material from the late Jurassic of Germany and Switzerland. One of the specimens has been described (but not named) elsewhere (Parsons and Williams, 1961); new information on the palate and basicranium is presented herein. Solnhofia possesses the shared derived characters diagnostic of the Cryptodira and within the Cryptodira of a group I have termed the Eucryptodira. More specific hypotheses of relationship are difficult to make for Solnhofia because most of the characters that are useful in comparing turtles are either primitive or uniquely derived in Solnhofia"--P. [1].

Subjects

Germany , Jurassic , Paleontology , Reptiles, Fossil , Solnhofia parsonsi , Switzerland , Turtles, Fossil

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2576, 1975

Language

English

Identifiers

LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/75318305
OCLC: 1532284