▪ Abstract A critical reexamination of turtle relationships continues to support a sister-group
relationship of turtles with a clade of marine reptiles, Sauropterygia, within crown-group …

There are now five reported examples in which the 3′ ends of tRNA-derived SINEs are
derived from the 3′ ends of LINEs. These examples include representative sequences from …

In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play
in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution …

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

Eight, temporally successive assemblage zones of tetrapod fossils provide the basis for
dividing Triassic time into eight land-vertebrate faunachrons. These land-vertebrate …

We present a rank-free phylogenetic nomenclature for 25 well-established ancient clades of
living turtles. This is the first attempt to document fully the nomenclatural history of a clade …

Presented herein is the first morphological analysis of turtle relationships to examine the
monophyly of many turtle groups by using only single species as terminals and by …

Despite their complex evolutionary history and the rich fossil record, the higher level
phylogeny and historical biogeography of living turtles have not been investigated in a …

Abstract Fossil discoveries from South Africa have greatly expanded knowledge of the
development of life on Earth. In particular, the enormous palaeontological wealth of the …

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 …