A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan

The evolutionary origin of the turtle shell and its dependence on the axial arrest of the embryonic rib cage

(2014) Tatsuya Hirasawa et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell

(2013) Tyler R. Lyson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A new species of Largocephalosaurus (Diapsida: Saurosphargidae), with implications for the morphological diversity and phylogeny of the group

(2013) CHUN LI et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Turtle origins: insights from phylogenetic retrofitting and molecular scaffolds

(2013) M. S. Y. Lee   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Using Genes as Characters and a Parsimony Analysis to Explore the Phylogenetic Position of Turtles

(2013) Bin Lu et al.   PLoS One

The endoskeletal origin of the turtle carapace

(2013) Tatsuya Hirasawa et al.   Nature Communications

More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs

(2012) N. G. Crawford et al.   Biology Letters

Transitional fossils and the origin of turtles

(2010) T. R. Lyson et al.   Biology Letters

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE