Sinaspideretes

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Sinaspideretes
Fossil range: Late Jurassic
Sinaspideretes wimani fossil displayed in Hong Kong Science Museum.
Sinaspideretes wimani fossil displayed in Hong Kong Science Museum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Subclass: Anapsida
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Trionychoidea
Family: Trionychidae
Genus: Sinaspideretes
Young and Chow, 1953

Sinaspideretes is an extinct genus of turtle from the Late Jurassic of China.

[edit] Sources

  • The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin
  • Chinese Fossil Vertebrates by Spencer G. Lucas