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Extinct genus of turtles
Sinaspideretes is an
extinct
genus of
turtle from the
Late Jurassic of
China , probably from the
Shaximiao Formation . It is considered the earliest and most basal representative of the
Trionychia ,
[1]
[2] and is possibly the oldest known member of
Cryptodira .
[3] In 2013, it was proposed that this animal and the genus Yehguia are in fact one and the same.
[4]
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.
Bibcode :
2014GeoM..151..600T .
doi :
10.1017/S0016756813000575 .
ISSN
0016-7568 .
S2CID
128423062 .
^
"Fossilworks: Sinaspideretes wimani" . fossilworks.org . Retrieved 17 December 2021 .
^ Evers, Serjoscha W.; Benson, Roger B. J. (January 2019). Smith, Andrew (ed.).
"A new phylogenetic hypothesis of turtles with implications for the timing and number of evolutionary transitions to marine lifestyles in the group" . Palaeontology . 62 (1): 93–134.
doi :
10.1111/pala.12384 .
S2CID
134736808 .
^ Tong, Haiyan; Li, Lu; Ouyang, Hui (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 .
S2CID
128423062 .
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
Sinaspideretes wimani Sinaspideretes