Sinaspideretes

Sinaspideretes is an extinct genus of turtle from the Late Jurassic of China. It is considered the earliest and most basal representative of the Trionychia.[1][2]

Sinaspideretes
Temporal range: Late Jurassic161.2–155.7 Ma
Sinaspideretes wimani fossil displayed in Hong Kong Science Museum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Genus: Sinaspideretes
Young and Chow, 1953
Species:
S. wimani
Binomial name
Sinaspideretes wimani
Young & Chow, 1953

References

  1. Ouyang, Hui; Li, Lu; Tong, Haiyan (July 2014). "A revision of Sinaspideretes wimani Young & Chow, 1953 (Testudines: Cryptodira: Trionychoidae) from the Jurassic of the Sichuan Basin, China". Geological Magazine. 151 (4): 600–610. doi:10.1017/S0016756813000575. ISSN 0016-7568.
  2. "Fossilworks: Sinaspideretes wimani". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2019-04-22.

Sources

  • The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin
  • Chinese Fossil Vertebrates by Spencer G. Lucas
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