Chapter 26
Published in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History • Nov 1, 2003
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Authors:,
Eugene S. Gaffney
Haiyan Tong
Abstract
The late Paleocene phosphates of the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco have yielded the skull of a new genus and species of side-necked turtle, Phosphatochelys tedfordi. Phosphatochelys is a pelomedusoid pleurodire belonging to the Family Bothremydidae Baur, 1891, based on these characters: (1) precolum...