Nanhsiungchelyidae
Extinct family of turtles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nanhsiungchelyidae (IPA: [ˌnɑːnˈɕiʌŋχελiːdeɪ] or IPA: [ˌnɑːnˈɕiʌŋtʃɛliːdeɪ]) is an extinct family of land turtles known from Cretaceous deposits in Asia and North America.[1] Nanhsiungchelyids were more terrestrial than many of their contemporaries, and may have gone extinct at the end of the Cretaceous as a result.[2]
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Nanhsiungchelyidae | |
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Basilemys variolosa skeleton, Royal Tyrrell Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Infraorder: | Eucryptodira |
Family: | †Nanhsiungchelyidae Yeh, 1966 |
Type species | |
†Nanhsiungchelys wuchingensis Yeh, 1966 | |
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