-
almost completely replaced pleurodires in the
lakes and rivers,
while beginning to
develop land-based species. Meanwhile,
pleurodires became the
dominant freshwater...
-
evidence for
convergent evolution of
specialized suction feeding among pleurodires".
Royal Society Open Science. 8 (5): 210098. Bibcode:2021RSOS....810098J...
- 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...
- 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...
-
turtle fauna of
Gondwana was
composed almost exclusively of
pleurodires.
Extant pleurodires live in
relatively warm regions, with a
geographical distribution...
- s****. The
Pelomedusidae and
Chelidae are the only
extant families of
pleurodires. The
Cryptodirans pull
their neck
straight back to
conceal their head...
-
global dispersal.
During the Late
Cretaceous and Cenozoic,
members of the
pleurodire families Bothremydidae and
Podocnemididae became widely distributed in...
-
unrelated marine testudines, the
pleurodire (side-necked) bothremydids, also
survived well into the Cenozoic.
Other pleurodires are also
thought to have lived...
