Pliocene and Pleistocene Records of Fossil Turtles from Western Kansas and Oklahoma / University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History Volume 1

A concise survey of fragmentary fossil turtles from western Kansas and Oklahoma held in a university collection, identifying specimens by family and, where possible, genus and noting their Pliocene and Pleistocene stratigraphic contexts. Material attributed to kinosternids, emydids (including Pseudemys), testudinids (with both large and small tortoise forms and Gopherus elements), chelydrids, and trionychids is catalogued with locality and age information. The author stresses the tentative nature of several identifications owing to fragmentary remains, highlights how the finds extend distributional and temporal records for extant genera, and proposes that some Gopherus material may represent an unusually large, possibly new species, with a short bibliography appended.