A new xinjiangchelyid turtle from the Middle Jurassic of Xinjiang, China and the evolution of the basipterygoid process in Mesozoic turtles

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rabi, Márton ^a,b   Zhou, Chang Fu ^c   Wings, Oliver ^d   Ge, Sun ^c   Joyce, Walter G ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c SHENYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover ^*  (Germany)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CLADISTICS; DIVERGENCE; JURASSIC; NEW SPECIES; NOMENCLATURE; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SKULL; TAXONOMY; TURTLE;

CHINA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

CRYPTODIRA; SINEMYDIDAE; TESTUDINES; XINJIANGCHELYIDAE;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETON; TURTLE; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; PHYLOGENY; SKELETON; TURTLES;

EID: 84884301154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-203     Document Type: Article

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