A fossil sea turtle (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the upper Oligocene Pomahaka Formation, New Zealand

作者：Gard Henry J L^*; Fordyce R Ewan

来源：Alcheringa, 2017, 41(1): 134-140.

DOI：10.1080/03115518.2016.1206319

• Paleogene
• Pacific
• stratigraphy
• estuarine
• reptile
• taxonomy

Gard, H.J.L. & Fordyce, R.E., August 2016. A fossil sea turtle (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the upper Oligocene Pomahaka Formation, New Zealand. Alcheringa 41, XX-XX. ISSN 0311-5518.An isolated turtle xiphiplastron similar to that of Puppigerus sp. is described from the upper Oligocene (27.3-25.2 Ma) Pomahaka Formation near Tapanui, Otago, New Zealand. The bone is unlike any previously described turtle from the Cenozoic of New Zealand and is from a newly recognized estuarine vertebrate locality. It represents the first Oligocene cheloniid turtle bone described from the southwest Pacific.Henry J. L. Gard , Department of Geology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, 9054, Otago, New Zealand.

• 出版日期2017