An almost complete juvenile specimen of the cheloniid turtle Ctenochelys stenoporus (Hay, 1905) from the upper cretaceous Niobrara Formation of Kansas, USA

Palaeontology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 669-691

  Matzke, Andreas T ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b Institut fur Geowissenschaften   (Germany)

Author keywords

Braincase; Cheloniidae; Ctenochelys; Kansas; Niobrara Formation; Testudines; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

BONE; CRANIUM; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL; JUVENILE; NEW SPECIES; ONTOGENY; SKULL; TURTLE;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 34249668277     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00650.x     Document Type: Article

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