So it looked like this ancient turtle didn't belong in the parareptile group.

看来这只古龟不属于副爬虫类。

And if the developmental biologists were right, turtles wouldn't be parareptiles; they'd be much more similar to eureptiles.

如果发育生物学家是对的， 海龟就不会是副爬行动物；他们会更类似于eureptiles。

And by the late 1940s, this theory became even more specific, suggesting that turtles were related to a particular group of extinct parareptiles called pareiasaurs.

到 20 世纪 40 年代后期， 这一理论变得更加具体，表明海龟与一种特殊的已灭绝的副爬行动物类群有亲缘关系， 这种类爬行动物被称为 pareiasaurs。

Starting in the late 19th century, most paleontologists thought that turtles belonged in the clade we now call parareptilia, because they shared the same basic skull structure with other parareptiles.

从 19 世纪后期开始， 大多数古生物学家认为海龟属于我们现在称为副爬行动物的进化枝，因为它们与其他副爬行动物具有相同的基本头骨结构。