Sinemys
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| Sinemys Temporal range: Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Family: | †Sinemydidae |
| Genus: | †Sinemys Wiman, 1930 |
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Sinemys is an extinct genus of turtle from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of China and Japan. Three species have been named: S. lens, the type species, from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian of Shandong; S. gamera, from the Valanginian-Albian of Nei Mongol; and S. wuerhoensis, from the Aptian-Albian of Xinjiang.[1]
References[]
Further reading[]
- Biology of Turtles by Jeanette Wyneken, Matthew H. Godfrey, and Vincent Bels
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Categories:
- Cryptodira
- Extinct turtles
- Prehistoric turtle genera
- Late Jurassic turtles
- Early Cretaceous turtles
- Late Jurassic genus first appearances
- Early Cretaceous genus extinctions
- Late Jurassic reptiles of Asia
- Early Cretaceous reptiles of Asia
- Fossils of China
- Paleontology in Shandong
- Taxa named by Carl Wiman
- Fossil taxa described in 1930
- Prehistoric turtle stubs