Manchurochelys manchoukuoensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cryptodira

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Archelosauria Division: Pan-Testudines Division: Testudinata Ordo: Testudines Subordo: Cryptodira

Superfamilia: Macrobaenoidea
Familia: †Sinemydidae
Genus: Manchurochelys
Species: Manchurochelys manchoukuoensis

Name

• Manchurochelys manchoukuoensis Endo & Shikama 1942
  • Holotype: Registration No. 3898 (former Central National Museum of Manchoukuo), a shell
  • Type locality: Tsaotzushan, 21 km southwest of Yizhou, which is in a Barremian/Aptian lacustrine horizon in the Yixian Formation of China.

References

• Endo, R. & Shikama, R. 1942. Mesozoic reptilian fauna in the Jehol mountainland, Manchoukuo. Bulletin of the Central National Museum of Manchoukou 3:1-20
• Zhou, C-f. 2010: A second specimen of Manchurochelys manchoukuoensis Endo & Shikama, 1942 (Testudines: Eucryptodira) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Zootaxa, 2534: 57–65. Preview