DocuBase  

 

TITLE: The oldest turtle from California and other new records of Late Cretaceous sea turtles from the Chico Formation
AUTHOR: James Ford Parham, Richard P. Hilton, and Eric S. Gohre
JOURNAL: PaleoBios
PUBLISHED: Apr 15, 2003
NOTES: 23(1)
ABSTRACT: New turtle specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Chico Formation of California are described. This material includes the left humerus of a juvenile turtle (VRT 46) that can be referred to the Protostegidae. In addition to being an important addition to the Chico Formation sea turtle fauna, VRT 46 is also the oldest turtle from California. The Late Cretaceous turtle fauna of the Pacific was more diverse than previously known as ii now includes representatives of all three major chelonioid clades: Cheloniidac, Dcrmochclyidae, and Protostegidae.
COLLECTION: PaleoBios Archive Public
ID: 218

YOU CAN VIEW THIS DOCUMENT IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:

  • PDF (from the DocuBase repository)

  • OCR from scanned images.

    Search DocuBase

    Edit this document

  • Back to DocuBase

    BNHM      University of California, Berkeley