Yehguia tatsuensis Yeh 1963

Reptilia - Testudines

Alternative combinations: Ferganemys tatsuensis, Plesiochelys tatsuensis

Full reference: H. K. Yeh. 1963. Fossil turtles of China. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C 150:1-113

Belongs to Yehguia according to D. B. Brinkman et al. 2008

See also Danilov and Parham 2006, Sukhanov 2000 and Yeh 1963

Sister taxon: Sinaspideretes wimani

Type specimen: IVPP-V996, a partial shell (incomplete shell, consisting of lateral parts of the carapace and a complete plastron). Its type locality is Gaofengshan, Dazu, which is in a Bathonian/Callovian terrestrial horizon in the Shaximiao Formation of China.

Distribution: found only at Gaofengshan, Dazu

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