Palaeoecology of Triassic stem turtles sheds new light on turtle origins

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1534, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Joyce, Walter G ^a   Gauthier, Jacques A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral states; Evolution; Importance of fossils; Palaeochersis talampayensis; Proganochelys quenstedti; Testudines

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HABITAT SELECTION; LIMB; PALEOECOLOGY; TURTLE;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HABITAT SELECTION; HISTOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; LAND BIOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; TURTLE;

AMNIOTA; ANIMALIA; PALAEOCHERSIS TALAMPAYENSIS; PROGANOCHELYS QUENSTEDTI; SAUROPTERYGIA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346372569     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2523     Document Type: Article

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