Xinjiangchelys
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| Xinjiangchelys Temporal range: | |
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| Syntype specimens of X. wusu | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Family: | †Xinjiangchelyidae |
| Genus: | †Xinjiangchelys Yeh, 1986 |
| Type species | |
| Xinjiangchelys junggarensis Yeh, 1986 | |
| Species | |
| See text | |
Xinjiangchelys is an extinct genus of xinjiangchelyid turtle known from the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of China and Kyrgyzstan.[1] It is known from over 11 different species.
Taxonomy[edit]
- Xinjiangchelys chowi
- Xinjiangchelys jingyanensis [citation needed]
- Xinjiangchelys jinyanensis [citation needed]
- Xinjiangchelys junggarensis (= Xinjiangchelys latimarginalis)
- Xinjiangchelys latiens
- Xinjiangchelys levensis
- Xinjiangchelys naryensis [citation needed]
- Xinjiangchelys oshanensis [citation needed]
- Xinjiangchelys qiguensis
- Xinjiangchelys radiplicatoides
- Xinjiangchelys radiplicatus [citation needed]
- Xinjiangchelys tianshanensis
- Xinjiangchelys wuerhoensis [citation needed]
- Xinjiangchelys wusu
References[edit]
- ^ Rabi, Márton; Zhou, Chang-Fu; Wings, Oliver; Ge, Sun; Joyce, Walter G (2013). "A new xinjiangchelyid turtle from the Middle Jurassic of Xinjiang, China and the evolution of the basipterygoid process in Mesozoic turtles". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (1): 203. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-203. PMC 3852240. PMID 24053145.
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