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Pleistocene turtles of Port Kennedy Cave (late Irvingtonian), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

David C. Parris  and
Edward Daeschler
David C. Parris
Affiliation:
Bureau of Natural History, New Jersey State Museum CN-530, Trenton 08625-0530
Edward Daeschler
Affiliation:
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-1195
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Abstract

The Late Irvingtonian fauna of Port Kennedy Cave, Pennsylvania, includes four species of turtles. Terrapene carolina is the most common species; Clemmys insculpta is present. A nearly complete plastron of Emydoidea blandingii from Port Kennedy and two specimens from New Jersey sites indicate that the species ranged through the Delaware Valley region during much of the Quaternary. The type material of Clemmys percrassa Cope is reidentified as Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) percrassa Cope, and becomes one of the more northeasterly records of the genus in North America.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , May 1995 , pp. 563 - 568
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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