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From: Updated cranial and mandibular description of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) baenid turtle Saxochelys gilberti based on micro-computed tomography scans and new information on the holotype-shell association

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Photographs of the associated fossils of the holotype skull of Saxochelys gilberti (DMNH EPV.96000), showing its associated shell and an interpretative line drawing. A fossil block with six preserved turtle shells. Note that both plastron-up preserved shells have associated skull material. B zoomed in and rotated section, focusing on the position of the holotype skull and its associated shell. C interpretative line drawing of the holotype plastron. Note that scute sulci are drawn with a thick black line and labelled in bold font, and bone sutures are drawn in a thin black line and labelled in regular font. ab, abdominal; an, anal; eg, extragular; epi, epiplastron; ent, entoplastron; fem, femoral; gu, gular; hu, humeral; hyo, hyoplastraon; hyp, hypoplastron; ifm, inframarginal (roman numerals denote position); mar, marginal; mes, mesoplastron; pec, pectoral; per, peripheral; py, pygal; xi, xiphiplastron

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