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| New material of North American side-necked turtles (Pleurodira, Bothremydidae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3655) |
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| Title: | New material of North American side-necked turtles (Pleurodira, Bothremydidae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3655) |
| Other Titles: | New material (Pleurodira, Bothremydidae) |
| Authors: | Gaffney, Eugene S. Hooks, G. E. (G. Edward) Schneider, Vincent P., 1951- |
| Keywords: | Bothremys. North Carolina. Chedighaii. Alabama. Turtles, Fossil. Cretaceous. |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | American Museum novitates, no. 3655. |
| Abstract: | New cranial and postcranial material of the pleurodire family Bothremydidae, subtribe Bothremydina, from the Gulf Coastal Plain of North America, clarifies the distribution of the genera Bothremys and Chedighaii. New skull material from the Campanian Tar Heel Formation of North Carolina shows the presence of both Bothremys and Chedighaii, based on a maxilla and lower jaw. Additionally, a series of otic chambers and basicrania, while providing important information on morphology, are identified as subtribe Bothremydina, genus and species indeterminate, as the basicranium alone is insufficient to distinguish Bothremys and Chedighaii. An associated skull-shell specimen belonging to the pleurodire subtribe Bothremydina from the Campanian Mooreville Chalk of Alabama, FMNH PR 247, identified in Gaffney et al. (2006) as Chedighaii barberi, is reinterpreted as belonging to the genus Bothremys. A maxilla and jugal fragment found among the material belonging to FMNH PR 247 shows that this specim... |
| Description: | 26 p. : ill., 1 map ; 26 cm. "June 25, 2009." Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-26). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5974 |
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