Sichuanchelyidae

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Sichuanchelyidae
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic–Late Paleocene
Sichuanchelys palatodentata.jpg
Sichuanchelys skull in multiple views
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pantestudines
Clade: Testudinata
Clade: Perichelydia
Family: †Sichuanchelyidae
Genera

Sichuanchelyidae is a family of extinct turtles in the Testudinata.

Systematics[]

The family Sichuanchelyidae was originally created to accommodate the Middle Jurassic Chinese turtle , and it was considered monotypic until Joyce et al. (2016) recovered the problematic Late Cretaceous turtle from Mongolia as a close relative of Sichuanchelys.[1][2][3] The late Paleocene form from Europe is the youngest sichuanchelyid, showing that stem turtles in Laurasia outlived the Mesozoic.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ H. Tong, I. Danilov, Y. Ye, H. Ouyang, and G. Peng. 2012. Middle Jurassic turtles from the Sichuan Basin, China: a review. Geological Magazine 149(4):675-695
  2. ^ W. G. Joyce, M. Rabi, J. M. Clark and X. Xu. 2016. A toothed turtle from the Late Jurassic of China and the global biogeographic history of turtles. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16(236):1-29
  3. ^ Joyce, Walter G. (2017). "A review of the fossil record of basal Mesozoic turtles" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 58 (1): 65–113. doi:10.3374/014.058.0105. S2CID 54982901. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
  4. ^ Adán Pérez-García (2020). "Surviving the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event: A terrestrial stem turtle in the Cenozoic of Laurasia". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): Article number 1489. Bibcode:2020NatSR..10.1489P. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-58511-8. PMC 6992736. PMID 32001765.


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