Sinaspideretes Young and Chow 1953 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines

Synonym: Yehguia Danilov and Parham 2006

Full reference: C.-C. Young and M.-C. Chow. 1953. New fossil reptiles from Szechuan China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 1(3):87-109

Parent taxon: Trionychoidea according to H. Tong et al. 2014

See also Brinkman et al. 2008, Carroll 1988, Danilov and Parham 2006, Meylan and Gaffney 1992, Sukhanov 2000, Syromyatnikova and Danilov 2009, Syromyatnikova et al. 2012, Syromyatnikova and Danilov 2013, Yeh 1963 and Young and Chow 1953

Sister taxa: Adocidae, Basilochelys, Kinosternoidea, Peltochelyidae, Planetochelyidae

Subtaxa: Sinaspideretes wimani Yehguia tatsuensis

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Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of China (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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