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- cervicals allow the neck to fold onto itself in the vertical plane. Pleurodirans also differ from cryptodirans in the emarginations of their skulls. Skull...
- The two groups differ in the way the neck is retracted for protection. Pleurodirans retract their neck to the side and in front of the shoulder girdles,...
- broad-s****ed snake-necked turtle, or giant snake-necked turtle, is a pleurodiran freshwater turtle and is the largest of the long-necked turtles. It is...
- snapping, alligator snapping, and Pacific pond turtles), the only other pleurodiran with haemal arches is the mata mata of South America. It is probably...
- Platychelyidae is an extinct family of pan-pleurodiran turtles, known from the Late Jur****ic and Early Cretaceous of Europe, South America, North America...
- Sokatra is an extinct genus of pleurodiran turtle, known from the Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation of Madagascar. It belongs to the family...
- Dortokidae is an extinct family of freshwater pan-pleurodiran turtles, known from the Cretaceous and Paleocene of Europe. Only four species have been...
- 1002/spp2.70006. ISSNĀ 2056-2802. Wieland, G. R. (1923). "A new Parana Pleurodiran". American Journal of Science. 5 (25): 1-15. Baur, Georg (1893). "Notes...
- Amabilis uchoensis is a species of prehistoric pleurodiran turtle from the Late Cretaceous of South America. It is the only species in the genus Amabilis...
- and the Pleurodirans. The distinction between these two suborders is based on the mode in which they cover their head and neck. The Pleurodirans, also called...