Alxa (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (40.3° N, 105.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 96.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: H.-V. Karl. 1999. Paleogeography and systematics of the genus Dogania Gray, 1844 (Testudines: Trionychidae). Studia Geological Salmanticensia 35:3-8 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/D. Nicholson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144651: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 14.05.2013, edited by David Nicholson

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Aspideretes alashanensis" = Kuhnemys maortuensis, Dogania maortuensis
"Aspideretes alashanensis" = Kuhnemys maortuensis Yeh 1965 softshell turtle
Dogania maortuensis Yeh 1965 softshell turtle