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- almost completely replaced pleurodires in the lakes and rivers, while beginning to develop land-based species. Meanwhile, pleurodires became the dominant freshwater...
- 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...
- head sideways to hide it under the s****. Another characteristic of pleurodires is that the pelvis is fused to the s**** which prevents pelvic motion...
- 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...
- evidence for convergent evolution of specialized suction feeding among pleurodires". Royal Society Open Science. 8 (5): 210098. Bibcode:2021RSOS....810098J...
- turtle fauna of Gondwana was composed almost exclusively of pleurodires. Extant pleurodires live in relatively warm regions, with a geographical distribution...
- it to tolerate climates that are far colder than those that most other pleurodire turtles occur in, including southerly and high-altitude temperate climates...
- global dispersal. During the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic, members of the pleurodire families Bothremydidae and Podocnemididae became widely distributed in...
- belonging to this suborder. All cryptodires have 12 plastral scutes, whereas pleurodires have thirteen. The extra scute is called the intergular. The rest of...
- Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil. It is one of the oldest known pleurodires. Kischlat, E.-E & Campos, D. de 1990. Some osteological aspects of Araripemys...