Sinemys

Taxobox
name = "Sinemys"
fossil_range=Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Testudines
subordo = Cryptodira
superfamilia = Testudinoidea
familia=Sinochelyidae
genus="Sinemys"
genus_authority=Wiman, 1930
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"S. lens" Wiman, 1930 (type)
*"S. gamera" Brinkman and Peng, 1993
*"S. wuerhoensis" Yeh, 1973

"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. [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=37759 "Sinemys"] , The Paleobiology Database, retrieved 2008-04-02.]

ources

* Biology of Turtles by Jeanette Wyneken, Matthew H. Godfrey, and Vincent Bels