A new side-necked turtle (Pleurodira, Pelomedusoides) from the Santana Formation (Early Cretaceous), Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1425, 2007, Pages 53-61

  De Oliveira, Gustavo Ribeiro ^a   Kellner, Alexander Wilhelm Armin ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b CNPq   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Early Cretaceous; Pleurodira; Romualdo Member; Santana Formation; Testudines

Indexed keywords

CRYPTODIRA; PELOMEDUSOIDES; PLEURODIRA; PROTOSTEGIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33947585046     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1425.1.7     Document Type: Article

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