Diverse turtle fauna from the late eocene of Georgia including the oldest records of aquatic testudinoids in southeastern North America

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 343-350

  Parmley, Dennis ^a   Hutchison, J Howard ^b   Parham, James F ^b,c  

^a GEORGIA COLLEGE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHELONIIDAE; CHELONIOIDEA; DERMOCHELYIDAE; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINOIDEA; TRIONYCHIDAE;

EID: 33845294401     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/0022-1511(2006)40[343:DTFFTL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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