A review of the fossil record of New World turtles of the clade Pan-Trionychidae

NS Vitek, WG Joyce - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2015 - BioOne
Turtles of the clade Pan-Trionychidae have a rich, but fragmentary fossil record in the New
World, ranging from the Late Cretaceous to the Holocene. The clade immigrated to North …

A review of the fossil record of turtles of the clade Baenidae

WG Joyce, TR Lyson - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2015 - BioOne
The fossil record of the turtle clade Baenidae ranges from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian—
Albian) to the Eocene. The group is present throughout North America during the Early …

A divergence dating analysis of turtles using fossil calibrations: an example of best practices

WG Joyce, JF Parham, TR Lyson… - Journal of …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Turtles have served as a model system for molecular divergence dating studies using fossil
calibrations. However, because some parts of the fossil record of turtles are very well known …

A redescription of the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) turtle Uluops uluops and a new phylogenetic hypothesis of Paracryptodira

Y Rollot, SW Evers, WG Joyce - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2021 - Springer
Abstract We study the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) turtle Uluops uluops using micro-computed
tomography scans to investigate the cranial anatomy of paracryptodires, and provide new …

Stratigraphy and megaflora of a KT boundary section in the eastern Denver Basin, Colorado

RS Barclay, KR Johnson… - Rocky Mountain …, 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A 50-m-thick section of the Denver Formation (D1 sequence of Raynolds) exposed at the
West Bijou Site of the Plains Conservation Center, Arapahoe County, Colorado, contains the …

A review of the fossil record of turtles of the clade Pan-Chelydridae

WG Joyce - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2016 - BioOne
Turtles of the total clade Pan-Chelydridae have a relatively sparse fossil record that reaches
back to the Late Cretaceous (Santonian). The clade was only present in North America …

A revision of Plesiobaena (Testudines: Baenidae) and an assessment of baenid ecology across the K/T boundary

TR Lyson, WG Joyce - Journal of Paleontology, 2009 - cambridge.org
Over the course of the last two decades, the baenid taxon Plesiobaena has typically been
thought to consist of two named species, Plesiobaena antiqua (Campanian) and …

Re-assessment of late Campanian (Kirtlandian) turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland Formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA

RM Sullivan, SE Jasinski, SG Lucas - Morphology and evolution of turtles, 2013 - Springer
The fossil turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland formations (late
Campanian; Kirtlandian) have been known for more than 100 years. We re-assess and …

Overview of the Late Cretaceous, early Paleocene, and early Eocene megafloras of the Denver Basin, Colorado

KR Johnson, ML Reynolds… - Rocky Mountain …, 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Late Cretaceous and Paleogene plant fossils collected at 149 localities in the
Denver Basin, Colorado, are placed into a stratigraphic framework based on …

Cranial anatomy and phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic turtle Compsemys victa Leidy, 1856

TR Lyson, WG Joyce - Journal of Paleontology, 2011 - cambridge.org
The skull of the enigmatic turtle Compsemys victa Leidy, 1856 is described. A number of
unique characteristics are apparent, including the extremely thick nature of all cranial bones …