A review of the fossil record of turtles of the clade Thalassochelydia

J Anquetin, C Püntener, WG Joyce - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of …, 2017‏ - BioOne
Abstract The Late Jurassic (Oxfordian to Tithonian) fossil record of Europe and South
America has yielded a particularly rich assemblage of aquatic pan-cryptodiran turtles that …

Impact of early Toarcian climatic changes on marine reptiles: Extinction and recovery

M Reolid, W Ruebsam, J Reolid, MJ Benton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Environmental changes governed the diversity of marine ecosystems and the evolution of
marine reptiles during the Jurassic. Abrupt climatic changes, mainly cooling, produced …

A new phylogenetic hypothesis of turtles with implications for the timing and number of evolutionary transitions to marine lifestyles in the group

SW Evers, RBJ Benson - Palaeontology, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary transitions to marine habitats occurred frequently among Mesozoic reptiles.
Only one such clade survives to the present: sea turtles (Chelonioidea). Other marine turtles …

The ecological diversification and evolution of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia), with insights into their mandibular biomechanics

MM Johnson, D Foffa, MT Young… - Ecology and …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Throughout the Jurassic, a plethora of marine reptiles dominated ocean waters, including
ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs. These Jurassic ecosystems …

Skull shape variation in extant and extinct Testudinata and its relation to habitat and feeding ecology

C Foth, M Rabi, WG Joyce - Acta Zoologica, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Turtles (Testudinata) are a diverse group of reptiles that conquered a broad set of habitats
and feeding ecologies over the course of their well‐documented evolutionary history. We …

Two turtles with soft tissue preservation from the platy limestones of Germany provide evidence for marine flipper adaptations in Late Jurassic thalassochelydians

WG Joyce, M Mäuser, SW Evers - PloS one, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
Late Jurassic deposits across Europe have yielded a rich fauna of extinct turtles. Although
many of these turtles are recovered from marine deposits, it is unclear which of these taxa …

A new chondrichthyan fauna from the Late Jurassic of the Swiss Jura (Kimmeridgian) dominated by hybodonts, chimaeroids and guitarfishes

L Leuzinger, G Cuny, E Popov… - Papers in …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
The fossil record of chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and chimaeroids) principally consists of
isolated teeth, spines and dermal denticles, their cartilaginous skeleton being rarely …

The early composition and evolution of the turtle shell (Reptilia, Testudinata)

T Szczygielski, T Sulej - Palaeontology, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The shell of the oldest true turtle (Testudinata) branch (Proterochersidae) from the Late
Triassic (Norian) of Poland and Germany was built in its anterior and posterior part from an …

A re-description of Sandownia harrisi (Testudinata: Sandownidae) from the Aptian of the Isle of Wight based on computed tomography scans

SW Evers, WG Joyce - Royal Society Open Science, 2020‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sandownidae is an enigmatic group of Cretaceous–Paleogene turtles with highly derived
cranial anatomy. Although sandownid monophyly is not debated, relationships with other …

Portlandemys gracilis n. sp., a New Coastal Marine Turtle from the Late Jurassic of Porrentruy (Switzerland) and a Reconsideration of Plesiochelyid Cranial Anatomy

J Anquetin, C Püntener, JP Billon-Bruyat - PLoS One, 2015‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Several groups of stem cryptodires became adapted to coastal marine
environments as early as the Late Jurassic, 40 million years before the Pan-Chelonioidea …