Re: [dinosaur] Chinlechelys (Triassic turtle) morphology and pareiasaur origin of turtles (free pdf)

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> If you claim Eunotosaurus is the earliest stem turtle, maybe the hand-wave is 
> that stem-turtles didn't develop their trademark gait until the early 
> Triassic...

That doesn't work, because Eunotosaurus has a short, stiff trunk like a turtle.

(Indeed it's shorter than in some Triassic turtles, as the paper points out.)