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 | |
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| 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
- 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.
- "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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