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Nanhsiungchelyidae ✝

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Nanhsiungchelyidae is an extinct family of land turtles known from Cretaceous deposits in Asia and North America.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanhsiungchelyidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4818928	https://www.gbif.org/species/4818928
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63054	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63054

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Nanhsiungchelyidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
-	Testudinata
order	Testudines	Batsch 1788
suborder	Cryptodira	Cope 1868
-	Eucryptodira	Gaffney 1975
family	Nanhsiungchelyidae	Yeh 1966

Scientific Name

Nanhsiungchelyidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nanhsiungchelyidae	family	belongs to Cryptodira	stated with evidence	Yeh, 1966
Nanhsiungchelyidae	family	belongs to Eucryptodira	stated without evidence	Peng et al., 2001
Nanhsiungchelyidae	family	belongs to Trionychoidea	stated without evidence	Hirayama et al., 2001
Nanhsiungchelyidae	family	belongs to Eucryptodira	stated with evidence	Hutchison and Holroyd, 2003
Nanhsiungchelyidae	family	belongs to Cryptodira	stated without evidence	Joyce and Norell, 2005
Nanhsiungchelyidae	family	belongs to Adocusia	stated without evidence	Syromyatnikova and Danilov, 2009
Nanhsiungchelyidae	family	belongs to Cryptodira	stated with evidence	Tong et al., 2012
Nanhsiungchelyidae	family	belongs to Adocusia	stated with evidence	Danilov et al., 2013
Nanhsiungchelyidae	family	belongs to Eucryptodira	stated without evidence	Hutchison et al., 2013
Nanhsiungchelyidae	family	belongs to Eucryptodira	stated with evidence	Mallon and Brinkman, 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

130 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

freshwater (based on Cryptodira)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Cryptodira)

Reproduction

oviparous (based on Cryptodira)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H.-k. Yeh. 1966. A new Cretaceous turtle of Nanhsiung, northern Kwangtung. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 10(2):191-200

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanhsiungchelyidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anomalochelys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Basilemys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	110	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Bulganemys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Hanbogdemys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Jiangxichelys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Kharakhutulia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Nanhsiungchelys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Yuchelys ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Zangerlia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Hanbogdemysa Sukhanov, 2000	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Nanhsiungchelyidae : *Hanbogdemysa*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1966	Nanhsiungchelyidae Yeh p. 191
1980	Charitonyx Chkhikvadze
2000	Hanbogdemysa Sukhanov
2000	Bulganemys Sukhanov p. 342 fig. 17.24
2000	Hanbogdemysa Sukhanov pp. 3340-342 fig. 17.23
2000	Bulganemys Sukhanov and Narmandakh p. 342
2001	Nanhsiungchelyidae Hirayama et al. p. 129
2001	Nanhsiungchelyidae Peng et al. p. 26

Year	Name and Author
2003	Nanhsiungchelyidae Hutchison and Holroyd
2005	Nanhsiungchelyidae Joyce and Norell p. 4
2009	Nanhsiungchelyidae Syromyatnikova and Danilov p. 75
2012	Nanhsiungchelyidae Tong et al.
2013	Nanhsiungchelyidae Danilov et al.
2013	Nanhsiungchelyidae Hutchison et al.
2013	Nanhsiungchelyidae Syromyatnikova and Danilov
2018	Nanhsiungchelyidae Mallon and Brinkman

References

Yeh H.-k. (1966) A new Cretaceous turtle of Nanhsiung, northern Kwangtung, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 10 2, 191-200

Sukhanov V. B. (2000) Mesozoic turtles of Middle and Central Asia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 309-367

Hirayama R., Sakurai K., et al (2001) Anomalochelys angulata, an unusual land turtle of family Nanhsiungchelyidae (superfamily Trionychoidea; order Testudines) from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, North Japan, Russian Journal of Herpetology 8 2, 127-138

Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54

Hutchison J. H., Holroyd P. A. (2003) Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado, Rocky Mountain Geology 38 1, 121-142

Joyce W. G., Norell M. A. (2005) Zangerlia ukhaachelys, new species, a nanhsiungchelyid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia, American Museum Novitates 3481, 1-19

Syromyatnikova E. V., Danilov I. G. (2009) New material and a revision of turtles of the genus Adocus (Adocidae) from the Late Cretaceous of middle Asia and Kazakhstan, Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 313 1, 74-94

Tong H., Xu L., et al (2012) A new nanhsiungchelyid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Neixiang, Henan Province, China, Annales de Paléontologie 98 4, 303-314 doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2012.08.001

Danilov I. G., Sukhanov V. B., et al (2013) Redescription of Zangerlia dzamynchondi (Testudines: Nanhsiungchelyidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, with a Reassessment of the Phylogenetic Position and Relationships of Zangerlia, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles, 407-417 doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4309-0_22

Hutchison J. H., Knell M. J., et al (2013) Turtles from the Kaiparowits Formation, Utah, At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah, 295-318

Syromyatnikova E. V., Danilov I. G. (2013) New material and phylogenetic position of Adocus bostobensis, a poorly known adocid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan, Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 317 2, 195-201

Mallon J. C., Brinkman D. B. (2018) Basilemys morrinensis, a new species of nanhsiungchelyid turtle from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Alberta, Canada, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38 2, e1431922:1-11 doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1431922

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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