Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

No specimen number - housed in the 9th Petroleum Prospecting and Exploration Brigade, Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, China.

Alternative combination: Manouria tsiyuanensis

Full reference: H.-K. Yeh. 1979. [Fossil testudinids from Jiyuan, Henan]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 17(4):310-317

Belongs to Kansuchelys according to D. B. Brinkman et al. 2008

See also Crumly 1983 and Yeh 1979

Sister taxa: Kansuchelys chiayukuanensis, Kansuchelys ovalis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kansuchelys tsiyuanensis type locality, which is in an Eocene/Oligocene terrestrial horizon in the Zeyu Formation of China

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Kansuchelys tsiyuanensis type locality

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