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Acta Biológica Colombiana
versión impresa ISSN 0120-548X
Resumen
CADENA, EDWIN A. THE FOSSIL RECORD OF TURTLES IN COLOMBIA; A REVIEW OF THE DISCOVERIES, RESEARCH AND FUTURE CHALLENGES. Acta biol.Colomb. [online]. 2014, vol.19, n.3, pp.333-339. ISSN 0120-548X. https://doi.org/10.15446/abc.v19n3.42223.
This is a review article on the fossil record of turtles in Colombia that includes: the early Cretaceous turtles from Zapatoca and Villa de Leyva localities; the giant turtles from the Paleocene Cerrejón and Calenturitas Coal Mines; the early Miocene, earliest record of Chelus from Pubenza, Cundinamarca; the early to late Miocene large podocnemids, chelids and testudinids from Castilletes, Alta Guajira and La Venta; and the small late Pleistocene kinosternids from Pubenza, Cundinamarca. I also discuss here the current gaps in the fossil record of tropical South American turtles, as well as the ongoing research and future projects to be developed in order to understand better the evolutionary history of Colombian turtles.
Palabras clave : Colombia; Cryptodires; paleontology; Pleurodires; Testudines.