Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Two major extinction events in the evolutionary history of turtles: one caused by a meteorite, the other by hominins
A. G. Pereira, A. Antonelli, D. Silvestro, S. Faurby
The paper analyzes the fossil record of turtles to identify extinction events, finding two major ones linked to the K-Pg meteorite and hominins, with the latter affecting terrestrial turtles.
DOI 10.1101/2022.07.20.500661