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JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
卷 30, 期 2, 页码 351-366出版社
SOC VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
DOI: 10.1080/02724631003617597
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- Richard Estes Memorial Grant
- DAAD
- PICT (Proyecto de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica) [25276, 1756]
- PIP (Proyecto de Investigacion Plurianual) [112-200801-00795]
Here we present a detailed anatomical description of cranial and post-cranial remains of a Jurassic turtle, Condorchelys antiqua Sterli, 2008, from the Canadon Asfalto Formation (Middle Jurassic) in central Patagonia. Although C. antiqua is similar in morphology to the Early Jurassic turtles Kayentachelys aprix and Indochelys spatulata, it differs in that it lacks both pterygoid teeth and a V-shaped suprapygal 2, respectively. In light of new discoveries and reinterpretations of other fossil taxa, we suggest that several changes in the evolution of the skull morphology of turtles (such as the closure of the basipterygoid articulation, the closure of the interpterygoid vacuity, the development of the secondary lateral wall in the braincase, the development of temporal emargination and/or the posterior extension of the crista supraoccipitalis) could be related to the acquisition of a stronger skull to accommodate the modern pulley system. The optimization of these characters in a phylogenetic framework shows that they are coincident with the appearance of trochlear systems (oticum or pterygoidei) in turtles, suggesting a functionally correlated relationship among them.
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