New insights into the early morphological evolution of sea turtles by re-investigation of

Juliette C L Menon, Donald B Brinkman, Guilherme Hermanson, Walter G Joyce, Serjoscha W Evers

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Article in Swiss journal of palaeontology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Cretaceous sea turtle soft tissues clarify ancestry of scale loss in chelonioids.iScience · 2025
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A redescription ofSwiss journal of palaeontology · 2025
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Juliette C L MenonDepartment of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 6, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.

Donald B BrinkmanRoyal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, AB Canada.

Guilherme HermansonDepartment of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 6, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.

Walter G JoyceDepartment of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 6, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.

Serjoscha W EversDepartment of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 6, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The early evolution of Pan-Chelonioidea (sea turtles) is poorly understood. This is in part due to the rarity of undeformed skulls of definitive early stem chelonioids. In this work, we redescribe the holotype of Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13358-024-00323-8.

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CT scanEvolutionNeck retractionPan-ChelonioideaPhylogenySea turtle

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PMID39006951

DOI10.1186/s13358-024-00323-8

PMCPMC11245440

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