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members of the
subclade Mesochelydia,
which contains almost all
known testudinatans from the Jur****ic onwards, are
thought to be
ancestrally aquatic. The...
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ancestors of lepidosaurs, kuehneosaurids, choristoderes, archosaurs,
testudinatans, ichthyosaurs, thalattosaurs, and sauropterygians.
Cynodonts evolve...
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sauropodomorph dinosaur Parvosaurus A
rhynchocephalian reptile Proganochelys A
testudinatan (stem-turtle)
Elachistosuchus A
reptile of
uncertain position Nicrosaurus...
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General Moenkopi Point Valley of the
Buttes Paiute Canyon General East
Paiute Valley Silty Facies Uncertain fragments Testudinatans of
uncertain ****ignment...
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diapsid features of the stem
turtle Pappochelys and the
potential testudinatan nature of Eunotosaurus.
Recent cladistic analyses reveal that lanthanosuchids...
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Turtle fossils possibly referrable to
Proganochelys Testudinata indet.
Malmros Klint Member?, Ørsted Dal
Member Indeterminate testudinatan (turtle) fossils...
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Kayentachelys was not a
member of
Crytodira and
instead represented an
early testudinatan outside of Testudines. The
placement of
Kayentachelys outside of Cryptodira...
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terrestrial for Testudinata. They are
distinguished from more
basal testudinatans by the
presence of the
following characters:
strap like
pectoral girdle...
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Joyce et al. to be
closely related to Proganochelys,
another terrestrial testudinatan.
Chinlechelys is
known from only one ****igned specimen, the holotype...
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fossils from
groups such as
sauropodomorph dinosaurs, cynodonts, and
testudinatans. However,
Quebrada del
Barro is more
abundant in
sphenodontians (Sphenotitan)...
