Biology:Sinaspideretes

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Short description: Extinct genus of turtles

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

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

  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. Bibcode2014GeoM..151..600T. 
  2. "Fossilworks: Sinaspideretes wimani". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=235662. 
  3. 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" (in en). Palaeontology 62 (1): 93–134. doi:10.1111/pala.12384. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.12384. 
  4. 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" (in en). Geological Magazine 151 (4): 600–610. doi:10.1017/S0016756813000575. ISSN 0016-7568. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0016756813000575/type/journal_article. 

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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