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Pliocene and Pleistocene Records of Fossil Turtles from Western Kansas and Oklahoma

Pliocene and Pleistocene Records of Fossil Turtles from Western Kansas and Oklahoma – University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History Volume 1. In the vertebrate paleontological collection at the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History there are many fragments of turtles that have been collected, generally in connection with the excavation or recovery […]

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A New Tortoise – Genus Gopheru

A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico. Gopherus flavomarginatus new species Holotype._–U.S. National Museum 61253, adult; stuffed specimen with disassociated skull; 30 to 40 miles from Lerdo, Durango, Mexico; obtained by Dr. Elswood Chaffee, 1918. Paratypes._–USNM 61254, adult, stuffed specimen with skull in place, other data the same as those for holotype; USNM 60976, […]

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A New Supspecies of Slider Turtle – Pseudemys scripta

A New Supspecies of Slider Turtle (Pseudemys scripta) from Coahuila, Mexico. In September, 1958, the author and two colleagues collected a large series of _Pseudemys_ in small ponds and in a river in the basin of Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila. The specimens prove to represent a previously unrecognized subspecies of _Pseudemys scripta_. The subspecies is named […]

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A New Extinct Emydid Turtle from the Lower Pliocene of Oklahoma

Holotype._–University of Kansas Museum of Natural History No. 7676, vertebrate paleontological collection, a turtle consisting of a fragmental anterior portion of a carapace, left part of the plastron, and several marginals collected by the 1946 paleontological field party of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History. Geological Age and locality._–Marl beds of the Laverne […]

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Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle

Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler The ornate box turtle, _Terrapene o. ornata_ Agassiz, was studied more or less continuously from September, 1953, until July, 1957. Intensive field studies were made of free-living, marked populations in two small areas of Douglas County, Kansas, in the period 1954 to […]

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Description of a New Softshell Turtle From the Southeastern United States

Examination of softshell turtles allied to _Trionyx muticus_ from the southeastern United States discloses the presence of an undescribed subspecies inhabiting river systems of the Gulf Coast. The author is indebted to Mr. Roger Conant for constructive criticism of the manuscript. I am grateful also to many fellow students for assistance in field work or […]

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