Mar 25
New paper I had the honor to illustrate!
Guilherme Hermanson and Serjoscha W. Evers take a look at the survivors of the K-Pg event among the turtles and besides size note that especially diet is something that sets them apart: many of them very shell crusher!
Animals featured here are Palatobaena sitting on top of a Basilemys skeleton that is slowly overgrown by ferns. T. rex skull in the back.
Ecological selectivity of diet on turtle K/Pg survivorship
Abstract. The Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K/Pg) mass extinction was catastrophic, eliminating much of terrestrial life and entire iconic vertebra
