Manchurochelys Explained

Manchurochelys is an extinct genus of turtle. It existed during the early Cretaceous of what is now northeast China.^[1] It has been found in the Jianshangou Bed of West Liaoning's Yixian Formation.^[2] However, it is a rarely found fossil.^[3] Manchurochelys was first named by Endo and Shikama in 1942, and contains the single species, M. manchoukuoensis (sometimes misspelled M. manchouensis). A second species, M. liaoxensis, was named in 1995 but was later shown to be a species of Ordosemys.^[4] It has been occasionally placed in the family Sinemydidae, although it is said to more likely belong in the family Macrobaenidae.^[5]

Further reading

• The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin
• The Osteology of the Reptiles by Alfred Sherwood Romer

External links

• Manchurochelys at the Paleobiology Database
• Paleo File.com's Alphabetical list, M. section.

Notes and References

1. Chinese Fossil Vertebrates by Spencer G. Lucas. Retrieved on 2008-08-24.
2. http://google.com/search?q=cache:f40uDzLYSKMJ:219.238.6.200/getfile%3Fcategory%3Darticle%26code%3D04yd0038%26file-name%3D05yd0298.pdf+Manchurochelys&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=19&gl=ca&lr=lang_en Jianshangou Bed of the Yixian Formation in West Liaoning, China
3. Web site: Fossils Seized . NewScientistTech . 2004-06-26 . 2008-08-26.
4. Tong, H., Ji, S. and Ji, Q. (2004). "Ordosemys (Testudines, Cryptodira) from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, northeastern China: new specimens and systematic revision." American Museum Novitates, 3438: 1-20.
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20060918184317/http://www.yale.edu/peabody/collections/vp/vp_FT/FTN_Feb05.pdf Fossil Turtle Newsletter.