Where: Zhejiang, China (29.4° N, 119.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 118.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Hengshan Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• ZMNH, Zhejiang Museum of Natural History
Primary reference: D. Brinkman, M. Rabi, and L. Zhao. 2017. Lower Cretaceous fossils from China shed light on the ancestral body plan of crown softshell turtles (Trionychidae, Cryptodira). Scientific Reports 7:6719:1-11 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187435: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 28.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Perochelys hengshanensis n. sp.
Perochelys hengshanensis n. sp. Brinkman et al. 2017 softshell turtle ZMNH M8750: articulated skeleton in ventral view, missing the anterior and right three quarters of the skull, lateral half of the right plastron, and a section through the anterior end of the shell including most of the anterior edge of the shell and the posterior portion of the neck.
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