Biology:Sinemys
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Short description: Extinct genus of turtles
| Sinemys Temporal range: Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Family: | †Sinemydidae |
| Genus: | †Sinemys Wiman, 1930 |
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Sinemys is an extinct genus of turtle from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of China and Japan . Three species have been named: S. lens, the type species, from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian of Shandong; S. gamera (Japanese: シネミス・ガメラ) (named after the movie monster of the same name), from the Valanginian-Albian of Nei Mongol; and S. wuerhoensis, from the Aptian-Albian of Xinjiang.[1] The species S. gamera is noted for the presence of a pair of elongate spines projecting outwards and backwards from seventh costal of the carapace. These may have served a hydrodynamic function.[2]
References
- ↑ Sinemys, The Paleobiology Database, retrieved 2008-04-02.
- ↑ Tong, Haiyan; Brinkman, Donald (September 2013). "A new species of Sinemys (Testudines: Cryptodira: Sinemydidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China" (in en). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 93 (3): 355–366. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0110-8. ISSN 1867-1594. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12549-012-0110-8.
Further reading
- Biology of Turtles by Jeanette Wyneken, Matthew H. Godfrey, and Vincent Bels
Wikidata ☰ Q7522413 entry
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