Duntu Basin, Hengshan Formation (soft-shelled turtle locality): Albian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Neolepidotes sp.
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Perochelys hengshanensis n. sp. Brinkman et al. 2017
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]