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- Title
Presence of the Jehol Biota turtle Ordosemys liaoxiensis in the Early Cretaceous Hengtongshan Formation of southern Jilin Province, China.
- Authors
Zhou, Chang-Fu; Wu, Wen-Hao; Rabi, Márton
- Abstract
Recently, a vertebrate assemblage of the Jehol Biota has been reported from the Early Cretaceous Hengtongshan Formation of Xingling Town, Meihekou City, Jilin Province, China. It is dominated by the fishes Lycoptera and Sinamia and the sinemydid turtle Ordosemys. Here, we describe the turtle specimens and referral to Ordosemys liaoxiensis , otherwise known from the older Yixian Formation of the Jehol Biota. It is characterized by a subcircular shell, wide vertebral scales, well-developed plastral fenestrae, and a major contribution from the xiphiplastra to enclose the hypo-xiphiplastral fenestra. As the first Mesozoic turtle of Jilin Province, this record represents the first tetrapod to indicate the presence of the Jehol Biota in the region. Given the geographic and temporal distance from the Yixian Formation, future collections from the Hengtongshan Formation have good potential for evaluating spatiotemporal patterns of the Jehol Biota.
- Subjects
JILIN Sheng (China); CHINA; BIOTIC communities; TURTLES; PROVINCES; LOGGERHEAD turtle; FISHES; CITIES &; towns
- Publication
Fossil Record, 2019, Vol 22, Issue 2, p57
- ISSN
2193-0066
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/fr-22-57-2019