Primer registro de tortugas marinas en el Neógeno superior del SO de España
- A. Toscano 1
- M. Abad 1
- F. Ruiz 1
- E. Jiménez-Fuentes 2
- E.X. García 3
- M.L. González-Regalado 1
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Universidad de Huelva
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Universidad de Salamanca
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- 3 Universidad de Guadalajara (México)
ISSN: 1576-5172
Year of publication: 2012
Issue Title: VIII Congreso Geológico de España, Oviedo, 17-19 de julio, 2012.
Issue: 13
Pages: 191-194
Type: Article
More publications in: Geotemas (Madrid)
Abstract
This paper analyzes the fossil record of turtles in the marine neogene formations in the Guadalquivir Basin, (Huelva, SW Spain). Their fossil record consists on a partial set of carapace and isolated plates of carapace, plastron and limb bones. The bone morphology allows the exclusion of both terrestrial and fluvio-lacustrine turtles and makes it possible to attribute them to the family Cheloniidae (sea turtles). The humeri of Cheloniidae are characteristic and can be assigned to the species Syllomus aegyptiacus Lydekker, 1899, a common cheloniid during the Miocene-Pliocene with a global distribution. This record constitutes the first occurrence of this group in the Neogene of southwestern Spain and the first occurrence of Syllomus in the Iberian Peninsula.