#FossilFriday visiting some old friends! This was the first turtle shell I collected, it is a pelomedusoid from the early #Oligocene Juana Diaz Fm. in southwestern #PuertoRico. Pelomedusoids are found in shallow marine deposits across the #GreaterAntilles until the Pliocene.
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And that's a wrap! Our paper is #OpenAccess and the specimens were CT-scanned with data available through www.morphosource.org
Big shoutout to @machukypaleoart.bsky.social for the awesome artwork!
Stay tuned for more Caribbean extinct vertebrates in the future!
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11/11
A sebecid preys on its prey, a megalocnid sloth, during the Early Pliocene of Hispaniola.
Our new paper, published today in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B, documents the presence of #sebecids in the #GreaterAntilles from the early #Oligocene through the early #Pliocene. Sebecids were apex-predator crocodylomorphs adapted to life on land.
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