New Materials of the Giant Sea Turtle «Allopleuron» (Testudines: Chelonioidea) From the Marine Late Cretaceous of Central Europe and the Palaeogene of Kazakhstan
Abstract Current examinations in German collections show that several bone remains from the Late Cretaceous of northern Germany could be allocated to the highly pelagic turtle Allopleuron Baur, 1888 as Allopleuron cf. hofmanni (gray, 1831). Previously Allopleuron was reported from the Late Cretaceous in the Netherlands and Belgium as well as from Palaeogene in North America and Germany (Karl, 2007). The latter, from the Rupelian (Early Oligocene) in Central Germany, is stratigraphically the youngest record of the genus. Additionally, a mounted skeleton from the Lutetian (early Middle Eocene, Palaeogene) in Kazakhstan is described as Allopleuron qazaqstanense n. sp.
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Karl, H.-V., Gröning, E., & Brauckmann, C. (2012). New Materials of the Giant Sea Turtle «Allopleuron» (Testudines: Chelonioidea) From the Marine Late Cretaceous of Central Europe and the Palaeogene of Kazakhstan. Studia Palaeocheloniologica Salmanticensia, 9, 153–173. Retrieved from https://revistas.usal.es/historico/index.php/Palaeocheloniologica/article/view/9224
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