Turtles from Upper Cretaceous Deposits of the Izhberda Locality (Orenburg Oblast, Russia)

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Abstract

The article describes a turtle assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Izhberda locality in the Orenburg Region of Russia. The assemblage contains at least four taxa of sea turtles: Protostegidae indet., Toxochelyinae indet. (the first reliable find in Eurasia), Ctenochelyidae indet., and Pan-Chelonioidea indet., similar to Corsochelys haliniches Zangerl, 1960. In addition, remains of Pan-Chelonioidea indet., which may belong to a wide range of taxa, and a fragment of a sculptured peripheral plate of Testudines indet., which may belong to a representative of the genus Peritresius (Ctenochelyidae) or a large representative of Nanhsiungchelyidae (previously not reported in Europe), are described.

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E. A Zvonok

Lugansk State Pedagogical University

Email: evgenij-zvonok@yandex.ru
Lugansk, Russia

A. V Mizetskaya

Orenburg State University

Orenburg, Russia

I. G Danilov

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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