Preliminary Overview of Late Cretaceous Turtle Diversity in Eastern Central Europe (Austria, Hungary, and Romania)

Rabi, Márton; Vremir, Mátyás; Tong, Haiyan

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“…These fossils, associated with typical marine taxa such as sharks and mosasaurs, were referred to possible terrestrial turtles and to theropod dinosaurs ( Averianov and Yarkov 2004a , 2004b ). Although the turtle remains were cited as resembling the basal turtle Kallokibotion ( Averianov and Yarkov 2004a ), these similarities were dismissed in a recent review of central-eastern European turtles by Rabi et al (2013a) . The poorly preserved theropod remains were referred to a dromaeosaurid (isolated tooth) or a more basal, non-avetheropod taxon (fragmentary braincase) ( Averianov and Yarkov 2004a ), although the heavily worn state of the latter specimen casts some doubts on this referral and it might belong to an indeterminate ankylosaur instead (Averianov, pers.…”

Section: The Late Cretaceous Continental Vertebrate Faunas Of Europementioning

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Island life in the Cretaceous - faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago

Csiki-Sava¹,

Buffetaut²,

Ősi

et al. 2015

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The Late Cretaceous was a time of tremendous global change, as the final stages of the Age of Dinosaurs were shaped by climate and sea level fluctuations and witness to marked paleogeographic and faunal changes, before the end-Cretaceous bolide impact. The terrestrial fossil record of Late Cretaceous Europe is becoming increasingly better understood, based largely on intensive fieldwork over the past two decades, promising new insights into latest Cretaceous faunal evolution. We review the terrestrial Late Cretaceous record from Europe and discuss its importance for understanding the paleogeography, ecology, evolution, and extinction of land-dwelling vertebrates. We review the major Late Cretaceous faunas from Austria, Hungary, France, Spain, Portugal, and Romania, as well as more fragmentary records from elsewhere in Europe. We discuss the paleogeographic background and history of assembly of these faunas, and argue that they are comprised of an endemic ‘core’ supplemented with various immigration waves. These faunas lived on an island archipelago, and we describe how this insular setting led to ecological peculiarities such as low diversity, a preponderance of primitive taxa, and marked changes in morphology (particularly body size dwarfing). We conclude by discussing the importance of the European record in understanding the end-Cretaceous extinction and show that there is no clear evidence that dinosaurs or other groups were undergoing long-term declines in Europe prior to the bolide impact.

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Island life in the Cretaceous - faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago

Csiki-Sava¹,

Buffetaut²,

Ősi

et al. 2015

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“…The most frequent skeletal elements, beside those pertaining to dinosaurs, are Kallokibotion shell fragments, but, unfortunately, the precise ecological preferences (more aquatic or more terrestrial) of this primitive turtle remain poorly understood (Rabi et al, 2013).…”

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Taphonomical and palaeoecological investigation of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tuştea vertebrate assemblage (Romania; Haţeg Basin) - insights into a unique dinosaur nesting locality

Botfalvai

Csiki-Sava

Grigorescu

et al. 2017

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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The Tuştea vertebrate locality, at Oltoane Hill (northwestern part of the Hațeg Basin, Romania), has provided a rich and diverse assemblage of Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) continental vertebrates. More than 800 vertebrate fossils were recovered from this locality; the isolated and associated remains represent 21 different taxa including amphibians, turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs, dinosaurs and mammals. The local assemblage is overwhelmingly dominated by dinosaurs, with the rhabdodontid Zalmoxes as the most abundant taxon. The bonebeds that yielded this fossil material occur in a stacked series of mudstone/calcrete units belonging to the middle member of the Densuş-Ciula Formation. The taphonomical investigations suggest that the Tuştea assemblage is made up of attritionally accumulated politaxic remains and that it is a parautochthonous assemblage with no evidence for significant bone transport or reworking.According to the synthesis of all available field data two outstanding fossiliferous levels can be identified within the Tuştea locality, where Megaloolithus eggs and hadrosauroid hatchling material are preserved together, recognized here as two superposed nesting grounds. Such co-occurrence was considered controversial, since there is a longstanding and quasi-general consensus that eggs of the Megaloolithus oogenus were laid by titanosaurian sauropods. We present several alternative scenarios to account for the cooccurrence of Telmatosaurus hatchling remains and megaloolithid eggs in the nesting horizons and explore these alternative hypotheses by weighing the arguments supporting or contradicting them. The burden of evidence derived from our sedimentological, taphonomical and palaeoecological investigations at Tuştea is still in favor of the autochthony of the hatchlings, preserved within their own nesting grounds, whereas there is no such support for a titanosaurian origin of the Tuștea megaloolithid eggs.

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“…However, given that the "type publication" was placed in an abstract volume, the name is not considered published and is therefore unavailable for nomenclatural considerations (ICZN 1999). Rabi, Vremir et al (2013) already noted the problematic status of this taxon name, but incorrectly concluded that it represents a nomen invalidum (i.e., a junior synonym). Instead, this name should be considered a nomen nudum until finally made available for nomenclatural consideration under the rules of the ICZN (1999).…”

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“…The earliest record consists of fragments from the Barremian of Teruel Province, Spain (Murelaga Bereikua 1998), the SantonianVeszprém County, Hungary (Rabi, Vremir et al 2013), and the Aptian Castellón Province, Spain (Pérez-García et al 2014), all of which are herein considered to be undiagnostic of valid species. Considering that the early record is focused on Spain and that the Iberian Peninsula was closest to the southern continents during the Early Cretaceous (Stampfli and Hochard 2009), it is plausible that dortokids dispersed from Africa to Europe during the early Cretaceous via the Iberian Peninsula.…”

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“…The Late Cretaceous record of dortokids includes remains from the Campanian of Lower Austria (Rabi, Vremir et al 2013) and the Maastrichtian of nearby Alba and Hunedoara Counties, Romania (Rabi, Vremir et al 2013 Vullo et al 2010), of which only a purported partial pelvis is figured (Vullo et al 2010). We therefore cannot rigorously verify the presence of this taxon in France.…”

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A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the CladesPlatychelyidaeandDortokidae

Cadena

Joyce

2015

Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

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The fossil record of platychelyid turtles expands from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) of Cuba to the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of Colombia. Platychelyids were adapted to freshwater to coastal environments. Current phylogenies confidently suggest that platychelyids are situated along the stem lineage of crown Pleurodira. A taxonomic review of the group concludes that of six named "platychelyid" taxa, four are valid and two are nomina nuda. Dortokids are a poorly understood group of freshwater aquatic turtles that are restricted to the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) to Eocene (Lutetian) of Europe. The phylogenetic position of the group is still under debate, but there is some evidence that these turtles are positioned along the stem lineage of crown Pleurodira as well. A taxonomic review of the group concludes that of four named dortokid taxa, two are valid, one is a nomen invalidum and one a nomen nudum.

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Preliminary Overview of Late Cretaceous Turtle Diversity in Eastern Central Europe (Austria, Hungary, and Romania)

Abstract: A preliminary overview of the relatively poorly known Late

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

Island life in the Cretaceous - faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago

Island life in the Cretaceous - faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago

Taphonomical and palaeoecological investigation of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tuştea vertebrate assemblage (Romania; Haţeg Basin) - insights into a unique dinosaur nesting locality

A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the CladesPlatychelyidaeandDortokidae

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