The First Side-Necked Turtle (Pleurodira, Bothremydidae) from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Egypt
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The Quseir Formation is an Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) deposit in the Kharga oasis of Southwestern Desert (Egypt). This formation comprises a clastic sequence bioturbated mudstone and sandstone intercalations, including rare scattered fragmented vertebrate remains such as shark teeth, dinosaur remains, turtle plates. These deposits indicate supratidal marsh environment. A complete shell discovered from Formation, at oasis, attributed here to Bothremydini (Pleurodira, Bothremydidae), determined new taxon: Khargachelys caironensis gen. et sp. nov. form represents only member currently identified Campanian record not Egypt but also North Africa. Therefore, it helps fill missing evolutionary gap Late pleurodires
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Diversity
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1424-2818']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020284