We report a new small podocnemidid, Gestemys powelli gen. et sp. nov., based on one nearly complete skull, lower jaw, two shells, and remains of the appendicular skeleton belonging to specimens from Eocene Geste Formation San Antonio de la Cobres Basin, Salta Province, north-western Argentina. As in other podocnemidid genera, exhibits fully developed medially extensive cavum pterygoidei, an inc...

Pedorelicts occur sporadically in coastal exposures of Middle to Late Triassic continental sediments, at Portishead, SW England. The clasts include aeolian and bedrock constituents, calcrete textures, vesicles other pedogenic features reflecting a hot semi-arid palaeoenvironment. Interpreted as being derived from an upland soil, they are classified palaeosol terms Calcic Protosol. In the most s...