Sinemys
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Sinemys Temporal range: Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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[edit]
- ^ 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". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 93 (3): 355–366. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0110-8. ISSN 1867-1594.
Further reading[edit]
- Biology of Turtles by Jeanette Wyneken, Matthew H. Godfrey, and Vincent Bels
Categories:
- Sinemydidae
- Prehistoric turtle genera
- Late Jurassic turtles
- Early Cretaceous turtles
- Late Jurassic genus first appearances
- Early Cretaceous genus extinctions
- Late Jurassic reptiles of Asia
- Early Cretaceous reptiles of Asia
- Fossils of China
- Paleontology in Shandong
- Taxa named by Carl Wiman
- Fossil taxa described in 1930
- Prehistoric turtle stubs