Fossil chelid turtles of Australia

Title Variants

Alternative: Chelid turtles

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2681

By

Gaffney, Eugene S.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1979

Notes

Title from caption.

"August 7, 1979."

"Miocene freshwater deposits in the Tirari Desert region of South Australia have yielded the first skull material of chelid turtles in the fossil record. Partial skulls consisting of well preserved but disarticulated elements are very similar to the Recent genus Emydura, hypothesized by Gaffney (1977) as one of the more plesiomorphic of the Recent chelids. Well-preserved shells, cervical vertebrae, and limb elements are also consistent with this identification"--P. [1].

Subjects

Australia , Chelidae , Miocene , Paleontology , Reptiles, Fossil , South Australia , Turtles, Fossil

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2681, 1979

Language

English

Identifiers

LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/80108473
OCLC: 7462632