Batsch

Bourque

Cadena

Cantalamessaa

Carr

Cope

Edmund

Ficcarelli

Fitzinger

Gray

Hoffstetter

Lindsey

O’Dea

Schweigger

Seymour

Spix

Theobald

Torres-Carvajal

Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [Van DiJk PP, Iverson JB, Rhodin AGJ, Shaffer HB, Bour R]

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New Pleistocene fossilized turtle remains from five localities of western Ecuador (Santa Elena Province) are described here. All these shell (carapace and plastron) fossil remains come from the Tablazo Formation and belong to three different lineages of cryptodires (“hidden-necked” turtles). The most abundant remains belong to geoemydids, attributed here to the genus Rhinoclemmys (indeterminate species). Less abundant in occurrence are the kinosternidids, attributed to Kinosternon (indeterminate species), and the first fossil record of chelydrids, Chelydra(indeterminate species), in the entirety of Central and South America.</jats:p

Edwin A. Cadena

Juan Abella

Maria D. Gregori

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New findings of Pleistocene fossil turtles (Geoemydidae, Kinosternidae and Chelydridae) from Santa Elena Province, Ecuador

Supplemental Information 2: Posterior portion of carapace of some extant South American
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Supplemental Information 2: Posterior portion of carapace of some extant South American Chelonoidis

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