A novel marine turtle (Pan-Chelonioidea: Ctenochelyidae) from the Maastrichtian Neylandville Marl Formation of north central Texas, U.S.A

Abstract The marine turtle family Ctenochelyidae was a Late Cretaceous North American radiation of Pan-Chelonioidea, broadly distributed along the coastlines of the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Mississippi Embayment. Here, we describe a large, mostly articulated carapace representing a novel species o...

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Main Authors: Heather F. Smith, Brent Adrian, Patrick Kline
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2025-05-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00363-8
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