A reassessment of the referral of an isolated skull from the latecretaceous of Uzbekistan to the stem-testudinoid turtlelindholmemys
Abstract
A fossil turtle skull (ZISP PH 1/17) from the LateCretaceous (upper Turonian, Bissekty Formation) of Dzharakuduk(Uzbekistan, Asia) was used to score the skull characters for the genusLindholmemys (a stem testudinoid) in a recent phylogenetic analysis. Adescription of ZISP PH 1/17 and a new cladistic analysis reveals nocharacters to support its referral to Lindholmemys elegans or to thestem-testudinoid lineage. ZISP PH 1/17 is very similar to North AmericanAdocus, differing mainly in characters of the upper jaw. Therefore, wehypothesize that ZISP PH 1/17 is the skull of either Shachemysancestralis or "Adocus" aksary, adocid shell taxa from Dzharakuduk.Pending additional discoveries and description of turtles fromDzharakuduk, we refer ZISP PH 1/17 to Adocidae, gen. et sp.indet.
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- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- COLLABORATION - Russian Academy ofScience
- OSTI Identifier:
- 913152
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-54852
TRN: US200802%%359
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Resource Relation:
- Journal Name: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology; Journal Volume: 25; Journal Issue: 4; Related Information: Journal Publication Date: 12/30/2005
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES; SKULL; TURTLES; FOSSILS; UZBEKISTAN; CLASSIFICATION; PALEONTOLOGY; CRETACEOUS PERIOD
Citation Formats
Danilov, Igor G., and Parham, James F. A reassessment of the referral of an isolated skull from the latecretaceous of Uzbekistan to the stem-testudinoid turtlelindholmemys. United States: N. p., 2005.
Web. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0784:AROTRO]2.0.CO;2.
Danilov, Igor G., & Parham, James F. A reassessment of the referral of an isolated skull from the latecretaceous of Uzbekistan to the stem-testudinoid turtlelindholmemys. United States. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0784:AROTRO]2.0.CO;2.
Danilov, Igor G., and Parham, James F. Thu .
"A reassessment of the referral of an isolated skull from the latecretaceous of Uzbekistan to the stem-testudinoid turtlelindholmemys". United States.
doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0784:AROTRO]2.0.CO;2.
@article{osti_913152,
title = {A reassessment of the referral of an isolated skull from the latecretaceous of Uzbekistan to the stem-testudinoid turtlelindholmemys},
author = {Danilov, Igor G. and Parham, James F.},
abstractNote = {A fossil turtle skull (ZISP PH 1/17) from the LateCretaceous (upper Turonian, Bissekty Formation) of Dzharakuduk(Uzbekistan, Asia) was used to score the skull characters for the genusLindholmemys (a stem testudinoid) in a recent phylogenetic analysis. Adescription of ZISP PH 1/17 and a new cladistic analysis reveals nocharacters to support its referral to Lindholmemys elegans or to thestem-testudinoid lineage. ZISP PH 1/17 is very similar to North AmericanAdocus, differing mainly in characters of the upper jaw. Therefore, wehypothesize that ZISP PH 1/17 is the skull of either Shachemysancestralis or "Adocus" aksary, adocid shell taxa from Dzharakuduk.Pending additional discoveries and description of turtles fromDzharakuduk, we refer ZISP PH 1/17 to Adocidae, gen. et sp.indet.},
doi = {10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0784:AROTRO]2.0.CO;2},
journal = {Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology},
number = 4,
volume = 25,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2005},
month = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2005}
}
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