دانلود کتاب Morphology and Evolution of Turtles

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Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Eugene S. Gaffney: A Professional Biography and Bibliography....Pages 3-8
Autobiography (Through May 2009)....Pages 9-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Problems of the Ancestry of Turtles....Pages 19-36
Origin of the Turtle Body Plan: The Folding Theory to Illustrate Turtle-Specific Developmental Repatterning....Pages 37-50
The Evolution of the Turtle Shell....Pages 51-61
Three Ways to Tackle the Turtle: Integrating Fossils, Comparative Embryology, and Microanatomy....Pages 63-70
Geometric and Developmental Perspectives on the Evolution of the Skull and Internal Carotid Circulation in Turtles....Pages 71-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
New Material of the Platychelyid Turtle Notoemys zapatocaensis from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia; Implications for Understanding Pleurodira Evolution....Pages 105-120
Spoochelys ormondea gen. et sp. nov., an Archaic Meiolaniid-Like Turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, Australia....Pages 121-146
Turtles from the Jurassic Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, People’s Republic of China, with Comments on the Basicranial Region of Basal Eucryptodires....Pages 147-172
Rediscovery of the Carapace of the Lost Holotype of the Purbeck Turtle Chelone obovata Owen 1842....Pages 173-178
Kappachelys okurai gen. et sp. nov., a New Stem Soft-Shelled Turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Japan....Pages 179-185
Morphology and Relationships of Brachyopsemys tingitana gen. et sp. nov. from the Early Paleocene of Morocco and Recognition of the New Eucryptodiran Turtle Family: Sandownidae....Pages 187-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
A New Long-Necked Turtle, Laganemys tenerensis (Pleurodira: Araripemydidae), from the Elrhaz Formation (Aptian–Albian) of Niger....Pages 215-250
Two Synchronic and Sympatric Bothremydidae Taxa (Chelonii, Pleurodira) in the Late Cretaceous Site of “Lo Hueco” (Cuenca, Spain)....Pages 251-259
New Information about Pelomedusoides (Testudines: Pleurodira) from the Cretaceous of Brazil....Pages 261-275
Nostimochelone lampra gen. et sp. nov., an Enigmatic New Podocnemidoidean Turtle from the Early Miocene of Northern Greece....Pages 277-287
A New Species of Bairdemys (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Oligocene (Early Chattian) Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina, USA, and Its Paleobiogeographic Implications for the Genus....Pages 289-303
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Preliminary Overview of Late Cretaceous Turtle Diversity in Eastern Central Europe (Austria, Hungary, and Romania)....Pages 307-336
Re-Assessment of Late Campanian (Kirtlandian) Turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland Formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA....Pages 337-387
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
A New Species of Neurankylus from the Milk River Formation (Cretaceous: Santonian) of Alberta, Canada, and a Revision of the Type Species N . eximius ....Pages 389-405
Redescription of Zangerlia dzamynchondi (Testudines: Nanhsiungchelyidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, with a Reassessment of the Phylogenetic Position and Relationships of Zangerlia ....Pages 407-417
Cretaceous Trionychids of Asia: An Expanded Review of Their Record and Biogeography....Pages 419-438
Fossil European Sea Turtles: A Historical Perspective....Pages 439-458
Fossil Kinosternidae from the Oligocene and Miocene of Florida, USA....Pages 459-475
New Turtles from the Paleogene of North America....Pages 477-497
Front Matter....Pages 499-499
Osseous and Other Hard Tissue Pathologies in Turtles and Abnormalities of Mineral Deposition....Pages 501-534
Morphological Variation in the Carapace and Plastron of Terrapene coahuila Schmidt and Owens 1944....Pages 535-566
Back Matter....Pages 567-577