New Turtle From Germany

[DD1991]

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.

[rew]

Good article. It's always nice to see some some more of the many holes in evolutionary history get filled in.

[Oxytropidoceras]

The paper is:

Schoch, R. R., and H.-D. Sues, 2015, A Middle Triassic stem-

turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan. Nature.

doi:10.1038/nature14472 Published online 24 June 2015

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14472.html

another paper is:

Joyce WG. 2015. The origin of turtles: A paleontological

perspective. ournal of Experimental Zoology Part B:

Molecular and Developmental Evolution. vol. 324(3):181-193

http://paleot.weebly.com/uploads/1/5/0/7/15071262/2015_joyce_turtles_evolution.pdf

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.22609/abstract

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited July 5, 2015 by Oxytropidoceras