- the
skull of
Pappochelys diapsid, as
opposed to the
anapsid skulls of
turtles that lack any
temporal fenestrae.
Fossils of
Pappochelys come from a rock...
- of an
ancestral turtle fossil,
Pappochelys rosinae,
provides additional clues as to how the
plastron formed.
Pappochelys serves as an
intermediate form...
-
supported once the
issues were corrected.
Lichtig &
Lucas (2021)
proposed Pappochelys was
related to sauropterygians,
Eunotosaurus was a
caseid synapsid, and...
-
turtle with a half-s****") is a Late Tri****ic
relative of
turtles before Pappochelys was
discovered and
Eunotosaurus was redescribed,
Odontochelys was considered...
- turtle's s****. The stem-turtles
Eunotosaurus of the
Middle Permian,
Pappochelys of the
Middle Tri****ic, and
Eorhynchochelys of the Late Tri****ic lacked...
- of Testudinata. However, the
thorax region is
markedly different from
Pappochelys and
Odontochelys and more
similar to
Eunotosaurus in
lacking a s****...
-
their skull openings.
Genetic studies and the
discovery of the Tri****ic
Pappochelys have
shown that this is also the case in turtles,
which are actually...
- †
Pappochelys...
-
evolved from sauropterygians, and
there is both
molecular and
fossil (
Pappochelys)
evidence for the
origin of
turtles among diapsid reptiles. The following...
- †
Pappochelys...
