Proceedings of the Symposium on Turtle Origins, Evolution and Systematics
Subtitle: August 18-20, 2003, St. Petersburg, Russia
By: edited by Igor G. Danilov and James F. Parham.
Contributors: Danilov, Igor G.; Parham, James F.
Series: Fossil turtle research -- v. 1; Supplement to Russian journal of herpetology
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 2006
Place of publication: St. Petersburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Turtles, Fossil -- Congresses; Turtles -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Called "3rd Symposium on Turtle Origins, Evolution and Systematics" in introd. (p. 5) , the previous ones being the First International Symposium on Fossil Turtles, held in Paris in 1983, and 2 sessions held during the 75th annual meetins of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Edmonton, Canada in 1995 and the 56th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, held in New York in 1996.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Report on the 3rd Symposium on Turtle Origins, Evolution and Systematics, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003 / Igor G. Danilov ... [et el.]; title: Turtles of the Horseshoe Canyon and Scollard formations - further evidence for a biotic response to late Cretaceous climate change / Donald B. Brinkman and David A. Eberth; title: Ontogenesis and evolution of horny parts of the turtle shell / Gennady O. Cherepanov; title: Convergence induced by plastral kinesis and phylogenetic constraints in Testudinoidea : a geometric morphometric assessment / Julien Claude; title: Kirgizemys (Testudines, 'Macrobaenidae') : new material from the Lower Cretaceous of Buryatia (Russia) and taxonomic revision / Igor Danilov ... [et el.]; title: Bridgeremys (Geoemydidae, Testudines), a new genus from the middle Eocene of North America / J. Howard Hutchison; title: Phylogenetic implications of turtle cranial circulation : a review / Heather A. Jamniczky, Donald B. Brinkman and Anthony P. Russell; title: The presence of cleithra in the basal turtle Kayentachelys aprix / Walter G. Joyce, Farish A. Jenkins Jr. and Timothy Rowe; title: The world's oldest fossil turtle : fact versus fiction / Walter G. Joyce and Hans-Volker Karl; title: An archaic turtle, Heckerochelys romani gen. et. sp. nov. from the middle Jurassic of Moscow region, Russia / Vladimir B. Sukhanov; title: New taxa of Mesozoic turtles from Mongolia / F.R. Vladimir B. Sukhanov and Pagam Narmandakh; title: Isanemys, a new adocid turtle from the Sao Khua Formation (early Cretaceous) of the Khorat Plateau, northeastern Thailand / Haiyan Tong, Eric Buffetaut and Varavudh Suteethorn.