new species of turtle that lived 125 million years ago Morella (Castelln) has been identified by researchers from the UNED .
According to a statement of this university, “meda about 20 centimeters long, swam in rivers crossing the area of ??Morella, Castellon liked sunbathing supported by any object, to emerge ro “.
“Although sun warming as do Galápagos , this specimen belongs to the group known as pleurodiras turtles, which were separated from most of the current-Galápagos turtles soft, marine and land-carapace makes more than 160 million years, “explains Francisco Ortega, a researcher at the Open University and one of the authors of their identification, published in the journal Cretaceous Research .
residues carapace found by scientists in the red clay of Morella were in a quarry with over fourteen sites and had a number of distinctive ridges that characterize an to the species. “Eodortoka morellana represents the first genus of vertebrate fsil described in Morella,” says Prez-Garca Adn, researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid and lead author of the study.
group members Pleurodira belongs to the copy currently live in regions with climates clidos, in America, South Africa and Oceana: “However, the remains fossils indicate that msclidos last moments on Earth, the great expansion experiment group, inhabiting also in Europe. “
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explains the UNED, the new turtle identified in Morella is the first and only species of Pleurodira described in Europe in the 45 million years that lasts Cretcico lower, which gives us clues the origin and evolution of this group.
Although this species is unique in Europe , turtles were abundant and diverse in wildlife Morella, where living with some of the most characteristic of dinosaurs Cretcico Bottom of Spain.
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