Manchurochelys manchoukuoensis Endo and Shikama 1942

Reptilia - Testudines - Sinemydidae

Alternative combination: Manchurochelys manchouensis

Full reference: R. Endo and R. Shikama. 1942. Mesozoic reptilian fauna in the Jehol mountainland, Manchoukuo. Bulletin of the Central National Museum of Manchoukou 3:1-20

Belongs to Manchurochelys according to C.-F. Zhou et al. 2014

See also Brinkman et al. 2008, Endo and Shikama 1942, Sukhanov 2000, Yeh 1963 and Zhou 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Registration No. 3898 (former Central National Museum of Manchoukuo), a shell. Its type locality is Tsaotzushan, 21 km southwest of Yizhou, which is in a Barremian/Aptian lacustrine horizon in the Yixian Formation of China.

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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