TY - JOUR AU - Vlachos, Evangelos AU - Rabi, Márton TI - Total evidence analysis and body size evolution of extant and extinct tortoises (Testudines: Cryptodira: Pan-Testudinidae) JF - CLADISTICS J2 - CLADISTICS VL - 34 PY - 2018 IS - 6 SP - 652 EP - 683 PG - 32 SN - 0748-3007 DO - 10.1111/cla.12227 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30354056 ID - 30354056 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Brinkman, D AU - Rabi, Márton AU - Zhao, L TI - Lower Cretaceous fossils from China shed light on the ancestral body plan of crown softshell turtles JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 7 PY - 2017 IS - 1 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-017-04101-0 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3318527 ID - 3318527 N1 - Funding Agency and Grant Number: European Union's Seventh Framework programme for research and innovation under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie [609402 - 2020] Funding text: Thanks to Xiao-chun Wu of the Canadian Museum of Nature for facilitating this study and for logistical assistance during travel arrangements. Travel by DB was supported by the Royal Tyrrell Museum Cooperating Society. This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework programme for research and innovation under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 609402 - 2020 researchers: Train to Move (T2M) to MR. We thank Walter G. Joyce and Juliana Sterli for discussion and providing photos of trionychids. Evangelos Vlachos and Mark Young are further thanked for discussions on cladistic methods. Igor Danilov and Natasha Vitek are thanked for carefully reviewing the manuscript. Gabriel Ferreira and Peter Pritchard are thanked for discussions with MR and Peter C.H. Pritchard and Sibille Pritchard are thanked for providing access to the collection of the Chelonian Research Institute and for hosting MR. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Joyce, WG AU - Rabi, Márton AU - Clark, JM AU - Xu, X TI - A toothed turtle from the Late Jurassic of China and the global biogeographic history of turtles JF - BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY J2 - BMC EVOL BIOL VL - 16 PY - 2016 PG - 29 SN - 1471-2148 DO - 10.1186/s12862-016-0762-5 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3165393 ID - 3165393 N1 - Funding Agency and Grant Number: National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [41120124002]; Special Funds for Major States Basic Research Projects of China [2012CB821900]; National Science FoundationNational Science Foundation (NSF) [EAR 0922187]; German Science Foundation (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [JO 928/2-1]; Postdoctoral Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Train to Move Marie Curie Postodoctoral Grant Funding text: This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41120124002) and the Special Funds for Major States Basic Research Projects of China (2012CB821900) to XX, from the National Science Foundation (EAR 0922187) to JMC, from the German Science Foundation (DFG JO 928/2-1) to WGJ, and by the Postdoctoral Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Train to Move Marie Curie Postodoctoral Grant to MR. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Zhou, Chang-Fu AU - Rabi, Márton TI - A sinemydid turtle from the Jehol Biota provides insights into the basal divergence of crown turtles JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 5 PY - 2015 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/srep16299 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3002821 ID - 3002821 N1 - Funding Agency and Grant Number: Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Land and Resources [201311120]; Liaoning BaiQianWan Talents Program [2014Q110]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [41202014]; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [JO 928/2-1]; Royal Tyrrell Museum Student Research Program Grant; SYNTHESYS Project [FR-TAF 4290, GB-TAF-1882, NL-TAF 3200, BE-TAF-5292]; Hungarian Academy of Sciences [95102] Funding text: This project was in part funded by the Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Land and Resources (No. 201311120), Liaoning BaiQianWan Talents Program (No. 2014Q110), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41202014), and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) grant JO 928/2-1. Further support was provided by a Royal Tyrrell Museum Student Research Program Grant and SYNTHESYS Project http://www.synthesys.info/grants (FR-TAF 4290, GB-TAF-1882, NL-TAF 3200, BE-TAF-5292) awarded to M. R. We thank W. G. Joyce, J. Sterli, I. Danilov, D. B. Brinkman, V. Sukhanov, H. Tong and J. F. Parham for insightful and inspiring discussions. V. Sukhanov, I. Danilov, E. Syromyatnikova and S. Chapman are thanked for access to collections. We also thank Walter G. Joyce and two anonymous reviewers for their time and efforts in reviewing an earlier draft of this paper. M. R. was supported by a "Momentum" grant (95102) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences awarded to A. Osi. AB - Morphological phylogenies stand in a major conflict with molecular hypotheses regarding the phylogeny of Cryptodira, the most diverse and widely distributed clade of extant turtles. However, molecular hypotheses are often considered a better estimate of phylogeny given that it is more consistent with the stratigraphic and geographic distribution of extinct taxa. That morphology fails to reproduce the molecular topology partly originates from problematic character polarization due to yet another contradiction around the composition of the cryptodiran stem lineage. Extinct sinemydids are one of these problematic clades: they have been either placed among stem-cryptodires, stem-chelonioid sea turtles, or even stem-turtles. A new sinemydid from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota (Yixian Formation, Barremian-Early Aptian) of China, Xiaochelys ningchengensis gen. et sp. nov., allows for a reassessment of the phylogenetic position of Sinemydidae. Our analysis indicates that sinemydids mostly share symplesiomorphies with sea turtles and their purported placement outside the crown-group of turtles is an artefact of previous datasets. The best current phylogenetic estimate is therefore that sinemydids are part of the stem lineage of Cryptodira together with an array of other Jurassic to Cretaceous taxa. Our study further emphasises the importance of using molecular scaffolds in global turtle analyses. LA - English DB - MTMT ER -