{"id":515094,"date":"2024-07-17T13:47:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=515094"},"modified":"2024-07-17T13:47:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:47:32","slug":"plants-no-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/plants-no-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants? No, turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_515104\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-515104 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-tartarugas-2024-02-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-tartarugas-2024-02-1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-tartarugas-2024-02-1140-250x113.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-tartarugas-2024-02-1140-700x316.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-tartarugas-2024-02-1140-120x54.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">PALMA-CASTRO, H. D. <em>et al<\/em>. <strong>Palaentologia Electronica<\/strong>. 2023<\/span>What were once thought to be leaf veins were actually bones<span class=\"media-credits\">PALMA-CASTRO, H. D. <em>et al<\/em>. <strong>Palaentologia Electronica<\/strong>. 2023<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The mistake is understandable, since the shapes are so similar: what looks like 120-million-year-old leaves were, in fact, very rare fossilized newborn turtle hatchlings. Father Gustavo Huertas Gonz\u00e1lez found two leaf-shaped fossils near the city of Villa de Leyva, Colombia, and identified them in 2003 as leaves from extinct plants of the species <em>Sphenophyllum colombianum<\/em>, aged between 419 million and 251 million years old. Measuring five and six centimeters long, the two fossils were part of the paleontological collection of the National University of Colombia (UNC). Puzzled by the dates and location of the fossils, UNC paleobotanist H\u00e9ctor Palma-Castro and his supervisor, Fabiany Herrera, noted that the margins of the supposed leaves did not resemble those of a plant and the fine lines looked like bones rather than plant veins. Edwin-Alberto Cadena, a paleontologist from University of the Rosary in Bogot\u00e1, confirmed their suspicions: the fossils were tiny shells of sea turtles, probably less than a year old when they died. It is a rare find\u2014the bones in the shells of young turtles are so fragile that they are easily destroyed. The shells could be from <em>Desmatochelys padillai<\/em>, the oldest known sea turtle (<em>Palaeontologia Electronica<\/em> and <em>LiveScience<\/em>, December 7, 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fossils identified as leaves were actually baby sea turtles","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[255],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-515094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-paleontology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515108,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515094\/revisions\/515108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515094"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=515094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}