Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoriclife forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2017.
Lepidosaurs
Rhynchocephalians
Research
A study on the morphological diversity and rates of morphological evolution of extinct and extant rhynchocephalians is published by Herrera-Flores, Stubbs & Benton (2017);[2] the study is subsequently criticized by Vaux et al. (2019).[3][4]
Jaws of Clevosaurus brasiliensis affected by osteomyelitis are described from the Late Triassic (Norian) Candelária Sequence of the Santa Maria Supersequence (Brazil) by Romo-de-Vivar-Martínez et al. (2017).[6]
A relative of pleurosaurids. The type species is V. herzogi.
Lizards and snakes
Research
A study comparing inner earmorphology of Dinilysia patagonica and extant lizards and snakes is published by Palci et al. (2017).[10]
An overview of the discoveries of Mesozoic lizards from Brazil is published by Simões et al. (2017).[11]
A study on the origins of the Australian fauna of lizards and snakes is published by Oliver & Hugall (2017).[12]
A study on the nomenclature and phylogenetic relationships of the lizard species assigned to the genus Necrosaurus is published by Georgalis (2017), who assigns the species Necrosaurus cayluxi and Melanosauroides giganteus to the genus Palaeovaranus and names a new family Palaeovaranidae.[13]
A study on the anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Eichstaettisaurus schroederi and Ardeosaurus digitatellus is published by Simões et al. (2017).[14]
An almost complete skull and a few associated postcranial bones of the lacertidDracaenosaurus croizeti are described from the Oligocene locality of Cournon (south-central France) by Čerňanský et al. (2017).[16]
A description of the anatomy of the postcranial skeleton of the putative stem-amphisbaenianSlavoia darevskii and a study on its implications for the evolution of the postcranial skeleton of amphisbaenians is published by Tałanda (2017).[17]
Fossils of a monitor lizard are described from the middle Pleistocene of Greece by Georgalis, Villa & Delfino (2017), representing the most recent known record of the family Varanidae from Europe.[21]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of members of Mosasauroidea is published by Simões et al. (2017).[22]
A study on the robustness of the hypotheses about mosasauroid phylogenetic relationships and a reevaluation of the dataset from the study of Simões et al. (2017) is published by Madzia & Cau (2017).[23]
A revision of mosasauroids from the Upper Cretaceous marine sediments associated with Gondwanan landmasses is published by Jiménez-Huidobro, Simões & Caldwell (2017).[24]
A redescription of Mosasaurus hoffmannii based on examination of many specimens is published by Street & Caldwell (2017), who also provide emended diagnoses for both the genus Mosasaurus and its type species M. hoffmannii.[25]
A study on the presence of ligamentous tooth attachment in mosasaurs and in fossil and modern snakes is published by LeBlanc, Lamoureux & Caldwell (2017).[26]
An overview of the snake fossil record from Brazil is published by Onary, Fachini & Hsiou (2017).[28]
A redescription of the type material of Gigantophis garstini, a reevaluation of referred material from North Africa and Pakistan, and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of Gigantophis and other madtsoiids is published by Rio & Mannion (2017).[29]
Snake fossils, including the first record of an indigenous member of the genus Pantherophis in West Indies and the first reported member of the genus Nerodia in the fossil record of West Indies, are described from the late Pleistocene of the Bahamas by Mead & Steadman (2017).[30]
A large viperine snake assigned to the genus Macrovipera is reported from the early Vallesian of Romania by Codrea et al. (2017), representing the first occurrence of this genus in the late Miocene of eastern Romania.[31]
A colubridsnake. Genus includes new species Z. schuberti.
Ichthyosauromorphs
Research
A study on the emergence date and changes of the evolutionary rate during the ichthyosauromorph evolution is published by Motani et al. (2017).[43]
A jaw fragment of a member of the genus Omphalosaurus is described from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) Karchowice Formation (Poland) by Wintrich, Hagdorn & Sander (2017), representing the first record of Omphalosaurus from shallow marine carbonates and from the Muschelkalk facies.[44]
Description of three nearly complete and well-preserved skulls of Chaohusaurus chaoxianensis, revealing new information on the skull anatomy of the species, is published by Zhou et al. (2017).[45]
A specimen of Ichthyosaurus somersetensis containing an embryo, representing the largest unequivocal specimen of a member of the genus Ichthyosaurus, is described from the Lower Jurassic (lower Hettangian) Blue Lias Formation (United Kingdom) by Lomax & Sachs (2017).[46]
A study on the mechanisms generating vertebral counts and their regionalisation during embryo development that were responsible for high plasticity of the body plan of sauropterygians is published by Soul & Benson (2017).[54]
A study on the evolution of the anatomy of the inner ear of sauropterygians is published by Neenan et al. (2017).[55]
A study on the morphology of the occlusal surface of placodont teeth and its implications for the diet of the placodonts is published by Crofts et al. (2017).[56]
Fossilized soft tissues preserved with skeletal remains of Middle Triassicnothosaurs from Poland are described by Surmik, Rothschild & Pawlicki (2017).[58]
Description of a new specimen of Lariosaurus xingyiensis from the Middle TriassicFalang Formation (China) and a phylogenetic analysis of the family Nothosauridae is published by Lin et al. (2017), who transfer the species "Nothosaurus" juvenilis, "N." youngi and "N." winkelhorsti to the genus Lariosaurus.[59]
Evidence of septic necrosis and decompression syndrome-associated avascular necrosis affecting bones of Pistosaurus longaevus is reported by Surmik et al. (2017).[60]
A study on the skeletal anatomy of Bobosaurus forojuliensis is published by Dalla Vecchia (2017).[61]
A study on the function of the long neck in plesiosaurs as indicated by the anatomy of the neck is published by Noè, Taylor & Gómez-Pérez (2017).[62]
A study on the large, paired openings in the neck vertebrae of plesiosaurs and their implications for inferring the anatomy of the vascular system in the neck of plesiosaurs is published by Wintrich, Scaal & Sander (2017).[63]
A study on the swimming method of plesiosaurs is published by Muscutt et al. (2017).[64]
An assessment of the completeness of the plesiosaur fossil record is published by Tutin & Butler (2017).[65]
A study on the tooth formation cycle in elasmosaurid plesiosaurs is published by Kear et al. (2017).[67]
A redescription of the holotype specimen of Tuarangisaurus keyesi and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by O'Gorman et al. (2017).[68]
A study on the anatomy of the vertebra of Vegasaurus molyi and its implications for the anatomy of the nervous system of the species is published by O'Gorman & Fernandez (2017).[69]
A member of the family Rhomaleosauridae. The type species is T. wiedenrothi.
Turtles
Research
A study on the evolution of the turtle vertebral column as indicated by the anatomy of the Late Triassic turtles and a phylogenetic analysis (which also tests the suggested relationship of Eunotosaurus africanus and Pappochelys rosinae to turtles) is published by Szczygielski (2017).[83]
A study on the evolution of turtle neck anatomy based on data from fossil and extant taxa is published by Böhmer & Werneburg (2017).[84]
A study on the morphological diversity of the skulls of the fossil turtles through time is published by Foth, Ascarrunz & Joyce (2017).[85]
Reconstructions of the morphology of the brain, inner ear and nasal cavities in the meiolaniids Niolamia argentina, Gaffneylania auricularis and Meiolania platyceps are presented by Paulina-Carabajal et al. (2017).[89]
New fossil material of Jiangxichelys ganzhouensis is described by Tong et al. (2017), who also transfer the species "Zangerlia" neimongolensis to the genus Jiangxichelys.[90]
Description of a new specimen of Camerochelys vilanovai from the Early Cretaceous of Spain and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Pérez-García, Sáez-Benito & Murelaga (2017).[93]
A study on the shell morphology, phylogenetic relationships and paleoecology of the Cretaceous trionychid Helopanoplia distincta is published by Joyce & Lyson (2017).[99]
Fossils of a member of the tortoise genus Titanochelon are described from the early Pleistocene of Spain by Pérez-García, Vlachos & Arribas (2017), representing the youngest evidence of a large tortoise in continental Europe.[102]
Redescription of the giant fossil tortoise "Testudo" gymnesica from the Balearic Islands (Spain) and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Luján et al. (2017).[103]
New, more complete fossil material of the Oligocene species Procolpochelys charlestonensis, as well as fused dentaries of a late Eocene member of the genus Euclastes (the most recent fossils of a member of the genus reported so far) are described from South Carolina by Weems & Brown (2017).[104]
Lindgren et al. (2017) examine, at the molecular level, details of the soft tissue anatomy of the holotype specimen of Tasbacka danica.[105]
A study on the anatomy of the neck vertebrae of the Late Jurassicstem-pleurodirePlatychelys oberndorferi and its implications for the mechanism allowing neck and head retraction in this species is published by Anquetin, Tong & Claude (2017).[106]
A study on the anatomy of the shell and pelvis of the specimens of Platychelys oberndorferi from Switzerland is published by Sullivan & Joyce (2017).[107]
A study on the skulls of the Late Cretaceousstem-podocnemididBauruemys elegans from the Presidente Prudente Formation (Brazil) is published by Mariani & Romano (2017), who interpret all specimens as belonging to the same species and likely to the same population, assess the ontogenetic changes in the skull of B. elegans and tentatively assess the changes of eating preference habits over ontogeny in the species.[110]
A member of Podocnemididae belonging to the subfamily Erymnochelyinae. The type species is "Erymnochelys" eremberti Broin (1977); genus also includes new species E. lacombianus and E. farresi.
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of mesosaurs and other early reptiles is published by Laurin & Piñeiro (2017);[133] this study is subsequently reevaluated by MacDougall et al. (2018).[134][135]
A specimen of the mesosaur species Stereosternum tumidum affected by congenital scoliosis is described from the Permian of Brazil by Szczygielski et al. (2017).[137]
New cranial material of Colobomycter pholeter, revealing previously unknown aspects of the anatomy of the skull, is described by Macdougall et al. (2017).[138]
A study on rates of morphological evolution in members of the family Captorhinidae and on whether changes of evolutionary rates coincided with shifts in diet is published by Brocklehurst (2017).[140]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships, species richness and morphological diversity of captorhinids is published by Romano, Brocklehurst & Fröbisch (2017).[141]
Description of a juvenile specimen Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) Upper Prosanto Formation (Switzerland), interpreted as most likely to be a terrestrial animal, and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Scheyer et al. (2017).[143]
A study on the geological setting, anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of the rhynchosaur species Supradapedon stockleyi is published by Langer, da Rosa & Montefeltro (2017).[145]
A study on the histology of the postcranial bones of Tanystropheus and Macrocnemus, and its implications for the ecology and mode of growth in these taxa, is published by Jaquier & Scheyer (2017).[148]
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^Felix Vaux; Mary Morgan‐Richards; Elizabeth E. Daly; Steven A. Trewick (2019). "Tuatara and a new morphometric dataset for Rhynchocephalia: Comments on Herrera‐Flores et al.". Palaeontology. 62 (2): 321–334. doi:10.1111/pala.12402. S2CID134902015.
^Paulo R. Romo-de-Vivar-Martínez; Agustín G. Martinelli; Voltaire D. Paes Neto; Marina B. Soares (2017). "Evidence of osteomyelitis in the dentary of the late Triassic rhynchocephalian Clevosaurus brasiliensis (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from southern Brazil and behavioural implications". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 29 (3): 320–327. doi:10.1080/08912963.2016.1158258. S2CID87216645.
^David I. Whiteside; Christopher J. Duffin; Heinz Furrer (2017). "The Late Triassic lepidosaur fauna from Hallau, North-Eastern Switzerland, and a new 'basal' rhynchocephalian Deltadectes elvetica gen. et sp. nov". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 285 (1): 53–74. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0669.
^Tiago R. Simões; Michael W. Caldwell; Luiz C. Weinschütz; Everton Wilner; Alexander W. A. Kellner (2017). "Mesozoic lizards from Brazil and their role in early squamate evolution in South America". Journal of Herpetology. 51 (3): 307–315. doi:10.1670/16-007. S2CID89960975.
^Paul M. Oliver; Andrew F. Hugall (2017). "Phylogenetic evidence for mid-Cenozoic turnover of a diverse continental biota". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1 (12): 1896–1902. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0355-8. PMID29062126. S2CID19653732.
^Tiago R. Simões; Michael W. Caldwell; Randall L. Nydam; Paulina Jiménez-Huidobro (2017). "Osteology, phylogeny, and functional morphology of two Jurassic lizard species and the early evolution of scansoriality in geckoes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 180 (1): 216–241. doi:10.1111/zoj.12487.
^Santiago Brizuela; Adriana M. Albino (2017). "Redescription of the extinct species Callopistes bicuspidatus Chani, 1976 (Squamata, Teiidae)". Journal of Herpetology. 51 (3): 343–354. doi:10.1670/16-121. S2CID89920192.
^Andrej Čerňanský; Arnau Bolet; Johannes Müller; Jean-Claude Rage; Marc Augé; Anthony Herrel (2017). "A new exceptionally preserved specimen of Dracaenosaurus (Squamata, Lacertidae) from the Oligocene of France as revealed by micro-computed tomography". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (6): e1384738. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1384738. S2CID49548540.
^Krister T. Smith (2017). "First crocodile-tailed lizard (Squamata: Pan-Shinisaurus) from the Paleogene of Europe". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (3): e1313743. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1313743. S2CID89730027.
^Paulina Jiménez-Huidobro; Tiago R. Simões; Michael W. Caldwell (2017). "Mosasauroids from Gondwanan continents". Journal of Herpetology. 51 (3): 355–364. doi:10.1670/16-017. S2CID89780058.
^Hallie P. Street & Michael W. Caldwell (2017). "Rediagnosis and redescription of Mosasaurus hoffmannii (Squamata: Mosasauridae) and an assessment of species assigned to the genus Mosasaurus". Geological Magazine. 154 (3): 521–557. Bibcode:2017GeoM..154..521S. doi:10.1017/S0016756816000236. S2CID88324947.
^Silvio Y. Onary; Thiago S. Fachini; Annie S. Hsiou (2017). "Mesozoic lizards from Brazil and their role in early squamate evolution in South America". Journal of Herpetology. 51 (3): 365–374. doi:10.1670/16-031. S2CID90190676.
^Jonathan P. Rio; Philip D. Mannion (2017). "The osteology of the giant snake Gigantophis garstini from the upper Eocene of North Africa and its bearing on the phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Madtsoiidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (4): e1347179. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1347179. hdl:10044/1/48946. S2CID90335531.
^Jim I. Mead; David W. Steadman (2017). "Late Pleistocene snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Abaco, The Bahamas". Geobios. 50 (5–6): 431–440. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2017.09.001. S2CID133775782.
^Vlad Codrea; Márton Venczel; Laurențiu Ursachi; Bogdan Rățoi (2017). "A large viper from the early Vallesian (MN 9) of Moldova (Eastern Romania) with notes on the palaeobiogeography of late Miocene "Oriental vipers"". Geobios. 50 (5–6): 401–411. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2017.07.001.
^Adriana Albino (2017). "A new species of Gaimanophis (Serpentes, Boidae) from the Miocene of northwestern Argentina with remarks on the Neogene boids of South America". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 16 (3): 278–283. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2016.11.007. hdl:11336/79304.
^Rodrigo A. Otero; Sergio Soto-Acuña; David Rubilar-Rogers; Carolina S. Gutstein (2017). "Kaikaifilu hervei gen. et sp. nov., a new large mosasaur (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the upper Maastrichtian of Antarctica". Cretaceous Research. 70: 209–225. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.11.002.
^Vlad A. Codrea; Márton Venczel; Alexandru Solomon (2017). "A new family of teiioid lizards from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania with notes on the evolutionary history of early teiioids". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (2): 385–399. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx008.
^Corentin Bochaton; Renaud Boistel; Sandrine Grouard; Ivan Ineich; Anne Tresset; Salvador Bailon (2017). "Evolution, diversity and interactions with past human populations of recently extinct Pholidoscelis lizards (Squamata: Teiidae) from the Guadeloupe Islands (French West-Indies)". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 31 (2): 140–156. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1343824. S2CID90561797.
^Jack L. Conrad (2017). "A new lizard (Squamata) was the last meal of Compsognathus (Theropoda: Dinosauria) and is a holotype in a holotype". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183 (3): 584–634. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx055.
^Andrej Čerňanský; Krister T. Smith (2017). "Eolacertidae: a new extinct clade of lizards from the Palaeogene; with comments on the origin of the dominant European reptile group – Lacertidae". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 30 (7): 994–1014. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1327530. S2CID49546941.
^Steven E. Jasinski; David A. Moscato (2017). "Late Hemphillian Colubrid Snakes (Serpentes, Colubridae) from the Gray Fossil Site of Northeastern Tennessee". Journal of Herpetology. 51 (2): 245–257. doi:10.1670/16-020. S2CID90960539.
^Tanja Wintrich; Hans Hagdorn; P. Martin Sander (2017). "An enigmatic marine reptile—the actual first record of Omphalosaurus in the Muschelkalk of the Germanic basin". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (6): e1384739. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1384739. S2CID91076880.
^Min Zhou; Da-Yong Jiang; Ryosuke Motani; Andrea Tintori; Cheng Ji; Zuo-Yu Sun; Pei-Gang Ni; Hao Lu (2017). "The cranial osteology revealed by three-dimensionally preserved skulls of the Early Triassic ichthyosauriform Chaohusaurus chaoxianensis (Reptilia: Ichthyosauromorpha) from Anhui, China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (4): e1343831. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1343831. S2CID90332288.
^Ilaria Paparella; Erin E. Maxwell; Angelo Cipriani; Scilla Roncacè; Michael W. Caldwell (2017). "The first ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of the Umbrian–Marchean Apennines (Marche, Central Italy)". Geological Magazine. 154 (4): 837–858. Bibcode:2017GeoM..154..837P. doi:10.1017/S0016756816000455. S2CID132955874.
^Stephanie B. Crofts; James M. Neenan; Torsten M. Scheyer; Adam P. Summers (2017). "Tooth occlusal morphology in the durophagous marine reptiles, Placodontia (Reptilia: Sauropterygia)". Paleobiology. 43 (1): 114–128. doi:10.1017/pab.2016.27. S2CID88556195.
^José P. O'Gorman; Rodrigo A. Otero; Norton Hiller; John Simes; Marianna Terezow (2017). "Redescription of Tuarangisaurus keyesi (Sauropterygia; Elasmosauridae), a key species from the uppermost Cretaceous of the Weddellian Province: Internal skull anatomy and phylogenetic position". Cretaceous Research. 71: 118–136. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.11.014.
^José P. O'Gorman; Marta S. Fernandez (2017). "Neuroanatomy of the vertebral column of Vegasaurus molyi (Elasmosauridae) with comments on the cervico-dorsal limit in plesiosaurs". Cretaceous Research. 73: 91–97. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.11.018. hdl:11336/129978.
^F. Robin O'Keefe; Rodrigo A. Otero; Sergio Soto-Acuña; Jose P. O'gorman; Stephen J. Godfrey; Sankar Chatterjee (2017). "Cranial anatomy of Morturneria seymourensis from Antarctica, and the evolution of filter feeding in plesiosaurs of the Austral Late Cretaceous". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (4): e1347570. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1347570. hdl:11336/75235. S2CID91144814.
^Norton Hiller; José P. O’Gorman; Rodrigo A. Otero; Al A. Mannering (2017). "A reappraisal of the Late Cretaceous Weddellian plesiosaur genus Mauisaurus Hector, 1874". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 60 (2): 112–128. doi:10.1080/00288306.2017.1281317. S2CID132037930.
^Sven Sachs; Benjamin P. Kear (2017). "Redescription of the elasmosaurid plesiosaurian Libonectes atlasense from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco". Cretaceous Research. 74: 205–222. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.02.017.
^José P. O’Gorman; Rodolfo A. Coria (2017). "A new elasmosaurid specimen from the upper Maastrichtian of Antarctica: new evidence of a monophyletic group of Weddellian elasmosaurids". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 41 (2): 240–249. doi:10.1080/03115518.2016.1224318. hdl:11336/79006. S2CID132473041.
^Marcela Gómez-Pérez; Leslie F. Noè (2017). "Cranial anatomy of a new pliosaurid Acostasaurus pavachoquensis from the Lower Cretaceous of Colombia, South America". Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 310 (1–2): 5–42. doi:10.1127/pala/2017/0068. S2CID134089475.
^Ana Marquez-Aliaga; Nicole Klein; Matías Reolid; Pablo Plasencia; José A. Villena; Carlos Martinez-Perez (2017). "An enigmatic marine reptile, Hispaniasaurus cranioelongatus (gen. et sp. nov.) with nothosauroid affinities from the Ladinian of the Iberian Range (Spain)". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 31 (2): 223–233. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1359264. S2CID89688730.
^Sven Sachs; Jahn J. Hornung; Benjamin P. Kear (2017). "A new basal elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (4): e1301945. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1301945. S2CID134707537.
^Adam S. Smith; Ricardo Araújo (2017). "Thaumatodracon wiedenrothi, a morphometrically and stratigraphically intermediate new rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurian from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) of Lyme Regis". Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 308 (4–6): 89–125. doi:10.1127/pala/308/2017/89.
^Asher J. Lichtig; Spencer G. Lucas (2017). "A simple method for inferring habitats of extinct turtles". Palaeoworld. 26 (3): 581–588. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2017.02.001.
^Stephen F. Poropat; Lesley Kool; Patricia Vickers-Rich; Thomas H. Rich (2017). "Oldest meiolaniid turtle remains from Australia: evidence from the Eocene Kerosene Creek Member of the Rundle Formation, Queensland". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 41 (2): 231–239. doi:10.1080/03115518.2016.1224441. S2CID131795055.
^Ariana Paulina-Carabajal; Juliana Sterli; Justin Georgi; Stephen F. Poropat; Benjamin P. Kear (2017). "Comparative neuroanatomy of extinct horned turtles (Meiolaniidae) and extant terrestrial turtles (Testudinidae), with comments on the palaeobiological implications of selected endocranial features". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 180 (4): 930–950. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw024. hdl:11336/63435.
^Haiyan Tong; Lu Li; Chaqing Jie; Laiping Yi (2017). "New material of Jiangxichelys ganzhouensis Tong & Mo, 2010 (Testudines: Cryptodira: Nanhsiungchelyidae) and its phylogenetic and palaeogeographical implications". Geological Magazine. 154 (3): 456–464. doi:10.1017/S0016756816000108. S2CID87997579.
^Andrew D. Gentry (2017). "New material of the Late Cretaceous marine turtle Ctenochelys acris Zangerl, 1953 and a phylogenetic reassessment of the 'toxochelyid'-grade taxa". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 15 (8): 675–696. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1217087. S2CID88758027.
^A. Pérez-García; F.-R. Sáez-Benito; X. Murelaga (2017). "New information on the anatomy and systematics of the Spanish Lower Cretaceous Camerochelys vilanovai (Testudines, Pan-Cryptodira)". Journal of Iberian Geology. 43 (2): 147–154. doi:10.1007/s41513-017-0014-6. S2CID133741760.
^Igor G. Danilov; Ekaterina M. Obraztsova; Wen Chen; Jin Jianhua (2017). "The cranial morphology of Anosteira maomingensis (Testudines, Pan-Carettochelys) and the evolution of pan-carettochelyid turtles". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (4): e1335735. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1335735. S2CID91097094.
^Pavel P. Skutschas; Elizaveta A. Boitsova; Gennady O. Cherepanov; Igor G. Danilov (2017). "Shell bone histology of the pan-carettochelyid turtle Kizylkumemys schultzi from the Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and shell bone morphology transformations in the evolution of pan-trionychian turtles". Cretaceous Research. 79: 171–181. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.07.010.
^Adán Pérez-García; Evangelos Vlachos; Alfonso Arribas (2017). "The last giant continental tortoise of Europe: A survivor in the Spanish Pleistocene site of Fonelas P-1". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 470: 30–39. Bibcode:2017PPP...470...30P. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.011. hdl:20.500.12468/768.
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