A new article regarding a new fossil turtle:
http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/smithsonian-scientist-and-collaborator-discover-key-link-turtle-evolution
It's no surprise that we have been looking for a missing link reptile that would provide morphological evidence to support DNA analyses linking turtles with lepidosaurs and archosaurs rather than pareiasaurs, and Pappochelys fills a gap in the fossil record by pushing the origin of turtles back 240 million years ago.