Skull morphology of <i>Foxemys</i> (Testudines: Pleurodira: Bothremydidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Massecaps, Cruzy, southern France

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	*Skull morphology of Foxemys* (Testudines: Pleurodira: Bothremydidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Massecaps, Cruzy, southern France**
	Tong, Haiyan 1,2; Buffetaut, Eric 3; Claude, Julien 4,5
	2025-03-17
发表期刊	HISTORICAL BIOLOGY
ISSN	0891-2963
页码	7
通讯作者	Tong, Haiyan(htong09@yahoo.fr)
摘要	The Massecaps locality (Cruzy, Department of H & eacute;rault, France) has yielded abundant turtle remains. Most of them have been referred to Foxemys mechinorum Tong, Gaffney and Buffetaut, 1998 which belongs to Bothremydidae, an extinct pleurodiran turtle family. A previous study has shown that skulls from that locality exhibited some differences from the type series. It was suggested that these differences may represent intraspecific variation or diagnostic characters for a separate taxon. In this paper, the skulls from the Massecaps locality are described. Comparisons with the type series of Foxemys mechinorum confirm the assignment of the Massecaps bothremydids to that species. The cranial differences from the type series are interpreted as intraspecific variation and may be explained mainly by ontogeny.
关键词	Turtle Pleurodira Bothremydidae Late Cretaceus Massecaps locality France Dr Mark Thomas Young, University of Edinburgh, UK.
DOI	10.1080/08912963.2025.2478209
关键词[WOS]	EVOLUTION ; TURTLES
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
项目资助者	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
WOS研究方向	Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Paleontology
WOS类目	Biology ; Paleontology
WOS记录号	WOS:001446224700001
出版者	TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/24292
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Tong, Haiyan
作者单位	1.Mahasarakham Univ, Palaeontol Res & Educ Ctr, Maha Sarakham 44150, Thailand 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.PSL Res Univ, Ecole Normale Super, Ctr Natl Rech Sci UMR 8538, Lab Geol, Paris, France 4.Univ Montpellier, Inst Sci Evolut Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France 5.Chulalongkorn Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Biol, Bangkok, Thailand
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tong, Haiyan,Buffetaut, Eric,Claude, Julien. Skull morphology of Foxemys (Testudines: Pleurodira: Bothremydidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Massecaps, Cruzy, southern France[J]. HISTORICAL BIOLOGY,2025:7.
APA	Tong, Haiyan,Buffetaut, Eric,&Claude, Julien.(2025).Skull morphology of Foxemys (Testudines: Pleurodira: Bothremydidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Massecaps, Cruzy, southern France.HISTORICAL BIOLOGY,7.
MLA	Tong, Haiyan,et al."Skull morphology of Foxemys (Testudines: Pleurodira: Bothremydidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Massecaps, Cruzy, southern France".HISTORICAL BIOLOGY (2025):7.