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| Kinkonychelys, a new side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides, Bothremydidae) from the late Cretaceous of Madagascar. (American Museum novitates, no. 3662) |
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| Title: | Kinkonychelys, a new side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides, Bothremydidae) from the late Cretaceous of Madagascar. (American Museum novitates, no. 3662) |
| Authors: | Gaffney, Eugene S. Krause, David W. Zalmout, Iyad S. |
| Keywords: | Kinkonychelys rogersi. Turtles, Fossil. Mahajanga (Province) Madagascar. |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History. |
| Series/Report no.: | American Museum novitates, no. 3662. |
| Abstract: | The type specimen of Kinkonychelys rogersi, n. gen. et sp., is the first turtle skull to be described from the pre-Holocene fossil record of Madagascar. This specimen, a nearly complete cranium, along with several referred specimens (a series of maxillae and a partial lower jaw), was recovered from the Maastrichtian Maevarano Formation in the Mahajanga Basin of northwestern Madagascar. A braincase with the diagnostic characters of Kinkonychelys, but differing in the position of the jaw articulation, formation of the foramen nervi facialis, and a number of other characters, was found in the same rock unit and is provisionally identified as belonging to Kinkonychelys sp., a presumed distinct, but closely related species, too incomplete to be diagnosed at present. Kinkonychelys is a bothremydid because it has the diagnostic characters of an exoccipitalquadrate contact and a fully enclosed incisura columellae auris (Gaffney et al., 2006). Kinkonychelys belongs to the tribe Kurmademydini, p... |
| Description: | 25 p. : ill., 1 map ; 26 cm. "August 28, 2009." Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-25). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5985 |
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