Sinemydidae

Sinemydidae is an extinct family of turtles from Cretaceous to Paleocene deposits in Asia and North America.[1][2] Their exact position is engimatic, they have alternatively been considered stem-group cryptodires, but also "crownward stem-turtles" alongside Macrobaenidae, Paracryptodira, Xinjiangchelyidae, Thalassochelydia and Sandownidae outside of crown Testudines.

Sinemydidae
Temporal range:
Jeholochelys
Manchurochelys
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Infraorder: Eucryptodira
Family: Sinemydidae
Yeh, 1963
Genera

See text

Genera

  • Dracochelys[3] Lianmugin Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian)
  • Hongkongochelys[3] Upper Shaximiao Formation, China, Middle-Late Jurassic
  • Jeholochelys[3] Jiufotang Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
  • Liaochelys[1][3] Jiufotang Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
  • Manchurochelys[3] Yixian Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
  • Ordosemys[3]
    • O. leios Luohandong Formation, China, Early Cretaceous
    • O. liaoxiensis Chengzihe Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
    • O. brinkmania Lianmugin Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian)
    • O. perforata Khulsangol Formation, Mongolia, Early Cretaceous (Albian)
    • O. donghai Chengzihe Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian)
  • Sinemys[3]
  • Wuguia[3]
    • Wuguia efremovi Khozatsky 1996 Hutubei Formation, China, Hauterivian/Barremian Lianmuxin Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian)
    • Wuguia hutubeiensis Matzke et al. 2004 Hutubei Formation, China, Hauterivian/Barremian
  • Xiaochelys[1][3] Lianmugin Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian)
  • Yumenemys[3] Hui-Hui-P'u, China, Late Cretaceous

References

  1. C.-F. Zhou and M. Rabi (2015). "A sinemydid turtle from the Jehol Biota provides insights into the basal divergence of crown turtles". Scientific Reports. 5: 16299. Bibcode:2015NatSR...516299Z. doi:10.1038/srep16299. PMC 4639786. PMID 26553740.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. "Sinemydidae". Fossilworks. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
  3. "Sinemydidae". Fossilworks. Retrieved October 18, 2019.


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