Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Full reference: D. Brinkman, M. Rabi, and L. Zhao. 2017. Lower Cretaceous fossils from China shed light on the ancestral body plan of crown softshell turtles (Trionychidae, Cryptodira). Scientific Reports 7:6719:1-11
Belongs to Perochelys according to D. Brinkman et al. 2017
Sister taxon: Perochelys lamadongensis
Type specimen: ZMNH M8750, a partial skeleton (articulated skeleton in ventral view, missing the anterior and right three quarters of the skull, lateral half of the right plastron, and a section through the ). Its type locality is Duntu Basin, Hengshan Formation (soft-shelled turtle locality), which is in an Albian lacustrine - small horizon in the Hengshan Formation of China.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Duntu Basin, Hengshan Formation (soft-shelled turtle locality)
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