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The Taxonomic Status of the Pleistocene Turtle Geoclemys sivalensis

The genus Geoclemys is known from the Plio-Pleistocene to recent times. Only one species, G. hamiltonii, described by Gray (1831), with numerous synonyms, is considered valid. Tewari and Badam (1969) described a fossil turtle, Geoclemys sivalensis, from the Upper Siwaliks of Punjab, in northern In...

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Main Author: Das, Indraneil
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Published: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles 1991
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spelling my.unimas.ir.235402019-02-20T02:09:49Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/23540/ The Taxonomic Status of the Pleistocene Turtle Geoclemys sivalensis Das, Indraneil QL Zoology The genus Geoclemys is known from the Plio-Pleistocene to recent times. Only one species, G. hamiltonii, described by Gray (1831), with numerous synonyms, is considered valid. Tewari and Badam (1969) described a fossil turtle, Geoclemys sivalensis, from the Upper Siwaliks of Punjab, in northern India. The present paper re-evaluates the taxonomic status of this fossil material, based on the published description and illustrations provided by Tewari and Badam (1969), and on photographs provided by Prof. Ashok Sahni, Punjab University. The material is preserved in the Museum of the Centre of Advanced Study in Geology (MCASG), Punjab University, Chandigarh (Reg. No. A/665). Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles 1991 E-Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/23540/1/48-%20Das%20%28Geoclemys%20sivalensis%29.pdf Das, Indraneil (1991) The Taxonomic Status of the Pleistocene Turtle Geoclemys sivalensis. Journal of Herpetology, 25 (1). pp. 104-107. ISSN 1937-2418 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1564804?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents DOI: 10.2307/1564804
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Das, Indraneil
The Taxonomic Status of the Pleistocene Turtle Geoclemys sivalensis
description The genus Geoclemys is known from the Plio-Pleistocene to recent times. Only one species, G. hamiltonii, described by Gray (1831), with numerous synonyms, is considered valid. Tewari and Badam (1969) described a fossil turtle, Geoclemys sivalensis, from the Upper Siwaliks of Punjab, in northern India. The present paper re-evaluates the taxonomic status of this fossil material, based on the published description and illustrations provided by Tewari and Badam (1969), and on photographs provided by Prof. Ashok Sahni, Punjab University. The material is preserved in the Museum of the Centre of Advanced Study in Geology (MCASG), Punjab University, Chandigarh (Reg. No. A/665).
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title The Taxonomic Status of the Pleistocene Turtle Geoclemys sivalensis
title_short The Taxonomic Status of the Pleistocene Turtle Geoclemys sivalensis
title_full The Taxonomic Status of the Pleistocene Turtle Geoclemys sivalensis
title_fullStr The Taxonomic Status of the Pleistocene Turtle Geoclemys sivalensis
title_full_unstemmed The Taxonomic Status of the Pleistocene Turtle Geoclemys sivalensis
title_sort taxonomic status of the pleistocene turtle geoclemys sivalensis
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