Duntu Basin, Hengshan Formation (soft-shelled turtle locality): Albian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Neolepidotes sp.
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Perochelys hengshanensis n. sp.
Brinkman et al. 2017
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ZMNH M8750: 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 anterior end of the shell including most of the anterior edge of the shell and the posterior portion of the neck. | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | China | State/province: | Zhejiang |
Coordinates: | 29.4° North, 119.9° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.0° North, 118.7° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
Key time interval: | Albian | ||
Age range of interval: | 113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Hengshan |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | lacustrine - small |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: ZMNH, Zhejiang Museum of Natural History |
Metadata
Database number: | 187435 | ||
Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
Created: | 2017-07-28 08:00:12 | Last modified: | 2017-07-28 08:00:12 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-07-28 08:00:12 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
62898. | 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 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion] |