A review of the Mesozoic turtles of the Junggar Basin (Xinjiang, Northwest China) and the paleobiogeography of Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Asian testudinates

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 259-273

  Rabi, Marton ^d   Joyce, Walter G ^a,b   Wings, Oliver ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Junggar Basin; Jurassic Cretaceous; Testudines; Xinjiangchelyidae

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRETACEOUS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT TYPE; LITERATURE REVIEW; MESOZOIC; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; TURTLE;

CHINA; JUNGGAR BASIN; LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; XINJIANG UYGUR;

SINEMYDIDAE; TESTUDINES; XINJIANGCHELYIDAE;

EID: 78149414813     PISSN: 18671594     EISSN: 18671608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12549-010-0031-3     Document Type: Review

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