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- evidence for convergent evolution of specialized suction feeding among pleurodires". Royal Society Open Science. 8 (5): 210098. Bibcode:2021RSOS....810098J...
- Podocnemididae is a family of pleurodire (side-necked) turtles, once widely distributed. Most of its 41 genera and 57 species are now extinct. Seven of...
- it to tolerate climates that are far colder than those that most other pleurodire turtles occur in, including southerly and high-altitude temperate climates...
- the narrow vertebrae and the closely positioned zygapophyses of the pleurodires, the cryptodires’ vertebrae take on the opposite shape. Their cervical...
- the bridge and the plastron is called the anterior bridge strut. In Pleurodires the posterior pelvis is also part of the carapace, fully fused with it...
- Cryptodira, diverged by the beginning of the Late Jur****ic. The oldest known pleurodires, the Platychelyidae, are known from the Late Jur****ic of Europe and the...
- global dispersal. During the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic, members of the pleurodire families Bothremydidae and Podocnemididae became widely distributed in...
- America, and the Caribbean. It represents the oldest known clade of stem-pleurodires. All known members have been found in marine or coastal deposits. Despite...
- related to Podocnemididae, and are amongst the most widely distributed pleurodire groups, with their fossils having been found in Africa, India, the Middle...
- marine cryptodires, a cheloniid, a dermochelyid, and a possible littoral pleurodire. Two species of longirostrine crocodylians are present, including a gavialoid...