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Excerpt from Breviora: Museum of Comparative Zoology; February 8, 1952 In the Oligocene this specialized section of the Chelydridae sensu lato was evidently fully distinct in shell characters, if still somewhat primitive in a few features. It has, however, not previously been known to what extent the skull had evolved concomitantly with the shell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.