Re: Phylogenetic position of Chelonia

[Ronald Orenstein <ornstn@rogers.com>]

At 04:02 PM 22/10/03 +0100, Derek Gatherer wrote:
> I'd be grateful if anybody could summarise current thinking on the 
> position of Chelonia relative to other reptiles (both extinct and extant), 
> and if possible, provide a reference to an up-to-date review article or 
> somthing similar.  I'm working on some turtle viruses and have read the 
> recent molecular evolutionary papers eg. 
> http://mbe.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/16/6/784, but I'd like to know what 
> the latest evidence of the fossil record is.

Well, I \'m going to blow my own horn and suggest you have a look at the 
chapter "Turtles in Time" in my book "Turtles, Tortoises and Terrapins: 
Survivors in Armor" [or, in Canada, Survivors in Armor: Turtles, Tortoises 
and Terrapins], published by Key Porter and Firefly Books.  I tried to 
cover the ground in reasonably lay language.


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