Morphology and Evolution of Turtles

Chapter 1 Eugene S. Gaffney: A Professional Biography and Bibliography

Chapter 2 Autobiography (Through May 2009)

Chapter 3 Problems of the Ancestry of Turtles

Chapter 4 Origin of the Turtle Body Plan: The Folding Theory to Illustrate Turtle-Specific Developmental Repatterning

Chapter 5 The Evolution of the Turtle Shell

Chapter 6 Three Ways to Tackle the Turtle: Integrating Fossils, Comparative Embryology, and Microanatomy

Chapter 7 Geometric and Developmental Perspectives on the Evolution of the Skull and Internal Carotid Circulation in Turtles

Chapter 8 New Material of the Platychelyid Turtle Notoemys zapatocaensis from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia; Implications for Understanding Pleurodira Evolution

Chapter 9 Spoochelys ormondea gen. et sp. nov., an Archaic Meiolaniid-Like Turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, Australia

Chapter 10 Turtles from the Jurassic Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, People’s Republic of China, with Comments on the Basicranial Region of Basal Eucryptodires

Chapter 11 Rediscovery of the Carapace of the Lost Holotype of the Purbeck Turtle Chelone obovata Owen 1842

Chapter 12 Kappachelys okurai gen. et sp. nov., a New Stem Soft-Shelled Turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Japan

Chapter 13 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

Chapter 14 A New Long-Necked Turtle, Laganemys tenerensis (Pleurodira: Araripemydidae), from the Elrhaz Formation (Aptian–Albian) of Niger

Chapter 15 Two Synchronic and Sympatric Bothremydidae Taxa (Chelonii, Pleurodira) in the Late Cretaceous Site of “Lo Hueco” (Cuenca, Spain)

Chapter 16 New Information about Pelomedusoides (Testudines: Pleurodira) from the Cretaceous of Brazil

Chapter 17 Nostimochelone lampra gen. et sp. nov., an Enigmatic New Podocnemidoidean Turtle from the Early Miocene of Northern Greece

Chapter 18 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

Chapter 19 Preliminary Overview of Late Cretaceous Turtle Diversity in Eastern Central Europe (Austria, Hungary, and Romania)

Chapter 21 A New Species of Neurankylus from the Milk River Formation (Cretaceous: Santonian) of Alberta, Canada, and a Revision of the Type Species N. eximius

Chapter 22 Redescription of Zangerlia dzamynchondi (Testudines: Nanhsiungchelyidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, with a Reassessment of the Phylogenetic Position and Relationships of Zangerlia

Chapter 23 Cretaceous Trionychids of Asia: An Expanded Review of Their Record and Biogeography

Chapter 24 Fossil European Sea Turtles: A Historical Perspective

Chapter 25 Fossil Kinosternidae from the Oligocene and Miocene of Florida, USA

Chapter 26 New Turtles from the Paleogene of North America

Chapter 27 Osseous and Other Hard Tissue Pathologies in Turtles and Abnormalities of Mineral Deposition

Chapter 28 Morphological Variation in the Carapace and Plastron of Terrapene coahuila Schmidt and Owens 1944