Nanhsiungchelyidae
Nanhsiungchelyidae is an extinct family of land turtles known from Cretaceous deposits in Asia and North America.[1] Nanhsiungchelyids were more terrestrial than many of their contemporaries, and may have gone extinct at the end of the Cretaceous as a result.[2]
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| Basilemys variolosa skeleton, Royal Tyrrell Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Infraorder: | Eucryptodira |
| Family: | †Nanhsiungchelyidae Yeh, 1966 |
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Genera
References
- "Nanhsiungchelyidae". FossilWorks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- "Fossilized egg from prehistoric giant turtle reveals baby inside".
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