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The '''Symposium on Turtle Evolution''' is a meeting of [[Biology:Turtle|turtle]] morphologists, evolutionary biologists, and paleontologists, which is organised by different institutions since 1983.

==List of conferences==
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! Year !! Name !! City / Country !! Organizers
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| 2018|| 6th Turtle Evolution Symposium || [[Place:Tokyo|Tokyo]] / {{wipe|Japan}} || School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University + Paleontological Society of Japan
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| 2015|| 5th Turtle Evolution Symposium || Rio de Janeiro / {{wipe|Brazil}} || Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, and Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro
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| 2012|| Symposium on Turtle Evolution || Tübingen / {{wipe|Germany}} || Geowissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
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| 2009 || [[Biography:Eugene S. Gaffney|Gaffney]] Turtle Symposium|| Drumheller, Alberta / {{wipe|Canada}} || Royal Tyrell Museum
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| 2003 || Symposium on Turtle Origins, Evolution and Systematics || St. Petersburg / {{wipe|Russia}}|| Department of Herpetology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
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| 1983 || First International Symposium on Fossil Turtles || [[Place:Paris|Paris]] / {{wipe|France}}|| N.N.
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Besides these symposiums, there have been additional smaller meetings: 
* 1995: session during the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (Edmonton, Canada), 
* 1996: session during the 56th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology ({{wipe|New York City}}, USA)
* 2003: one-day symposium during the 10th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology organized by the International Society of Vertebrate Morphology ([[Place:Barcelona|Barcelona]], {{wipe|Spain}})
* 2014: Meeting of Central European Turtle Evolutionary Biologists, organized by Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich ([[Place:Zürich|Zürich]], {{wipe|Switzerland}})

== References ==
* Brinkman D, Holroyd P., and Gardner J (editors) (2012). Morphology and Evolution of Turtles. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series. Springer
* Danilov IG and Parham JF (2006). Report on the 3rd Symposium on Turtle Origins, Evolution and Systematics, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003. Fossil Turtle Research Vol. 1, 2006, pp.&nbsp;5 – 10, http://www.zin.ru/labs/herplab/doc/Danilov_et_al_2006b.pdf
* de Broin, Jiménez-Fuentes (1984, eds.). Studia Geologica Salamanticensia, vol. especial I. Studia Palaeocheloniologica I
* Joyce WG, Corsini J, Werneburg I, and Rabi M (editors) (2012). Symposium on Turtle Evolution 2012. Program and Abstracts. TOBIAS-lib Hochschulserver der Universität Tübingen, Tübingen 2012, http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/volltexte/2012/6210/
* Hirayama R; Kuratani S; Takahashi A; Nakajima Y; Sonoda T; Nishioka Y; Yoshida M (2018). Turtle Evolution Symposium 2018 Japan. Program and Abstracts. Scidinge Hall Verlag Tübingen & TOBIAS-lib Hochschulserver der Universität Tübingen. http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-24173
* Moustakas-Verho J, Gilbert S (organizers) (2013). The Origin and Evolution of Turtles. In: "Program & Abstracts of the 10th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Barcelona 2013". Anatomical Record 296 (Special Feature): 170-174. (Special Issue to be edited in the Journal of Experimental Zoology B)

[[Category:Evolution of tetrapods]]

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