Adam Yates on Nostr: I had failed to realise that a paper I had co-written with turtle aficionados Mehdi ...

I had failed to realise that a paper I had co-written with turtle aficionados Mehdi Joseph-Ouni and Bill McCord has been published. We establish two new species in the genus Elseya, a group of Australo-Papuan side necked turtles. The fossils come from a middle Miocene site in the Northern Territory. Both species had shell lengths of about 40 cm which is pretty big for Australian side-necks.
https://www.taxonomyaustralia.org.au/ajt/papers/rmxk73t2tl

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