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Chuannanchelys
Taxonomy
Chuannanchelys was named by Tong et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Bashuchelyidae by Tong et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Bashuchelyidae by Tong et al. (2012).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2012 | Chuannanchelys Tong et al. pp. 683-684 fig. 6 |
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| H. Tong et al. 2012 | A genus of the Bashuchelyidae, carapace length about 200 mm, with the following combination of characters: carapace elongated oval and low (1) with shallow cervical notch (2); all vertebrals broad, second to fourth vertebrals almost twice as wide as long (3); plastron with wide anterior lobe, and short and wide posterior lobe (4); one pair of reduced mesoplastra meeting on the midline and included entirely in the abdominal scute (5); epiplastron squarish (6) with long midline contact (7); entoplastron diamond-shaped and slightly longer than wide (8); intergulars excluded from entoplastron (9). Differs from Bashuchelys by characters 3–9. |