... the phylogenetic placement of C. victa . Both global analyses converged by placing C. victa within Paracryptodira, herein defined as the most inclusive clade that includes Pleurosternon bullockii and Baena arenosa , but no species of living turtle, whereas the paracryptodiran analysis places C. victa outside...

... most Late Cretaceous turtle assemblages from North America in that members of the Paracryptodira are absent. The absence of this group is interpreted as a result of latitudinal differentiation of turtle assemblages in North America during the Late Cretaceous. The level of diversity of turtles...

... of a proper fpcci that is located more laterally and posteriorly than the foramen carotici cerebralis posterior of more basal taxa. A similar process can be proposed for Paracryptodira: the parasphenoid expands and traps the internal carotid ventral to the basisphenoid up to a point situated midway along...

... Neurankylus , please refer to Larson et al. ( 2013 ) and Joyce and Lyson ( 2015 ). Neurankylus torrejonensis new species Figures 2 – 5 Paracryptodira Gaffney, 1975 Baenidae Cope, 1873 08 10 2015 Copyright © 2016, The Paleontological Society 2016 The Paleontological...

... in the tree as the sister-group of the clade uniting Paracryptodira and Eucryptodira (excluding Meiolaniidae) rather than closely related to Proterochersis robusta , which allows reducing significantly the number of convergent evolutions of character within panpleurodires and pancryptodires...

...). Paracryptodira Gaffney, 1975 Baenidae Cope, 1882 Palatobaena Gaffney, 1972 02 02 2009 The Paleontological Society 2009 Baenidae is a species-rich group of paracryptodiran turtles ( Joyce, 2007 ) endemic to North America that arose in the early Cretaceous, diversified...

... by our cladistic analysis. The following taxa have been condensed for space reasons and simplicity: Chelidae, Chelonioidea, Chelydridae, Paracryptodira, Pelomedusoides, Platychelyidae, Trionychoidea, Pleurodira. Abbreviations: A. – Australochelys ; Ch. – Chrysemys , Ge. – Geoclemys , Go...

... Testudines Batsch, 1788 Suborder Paracryptodira Gaffney, 1975 Family Baenidae Cope, 1882 Genus and species indeterminate The carapace ( Fig. 2 ) is of moderate size, with an estimated maximum width of 22 cm when measured at the level of the inguinal buttress. The anterior margin...

... Gaffney et al., 1987 (see Joyce and Sterli, 2012 for summary). Following Joyce (2007), representatives of the three primary clades of turtles (total group Pleurodira, total group Cryptodira, and Paracryptodira) occur in the Late Jurassic. However, like Dryden (1988 ), Sterli and de la Fuente (2011...