Sinemydidae Temporal range:
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Jeholochelys | |
Ordosemys | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | Perichelydia |
Family: | †Sinemydidae Yeh, 1963 |
Genera | |
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Sinemydidae is an extinct family of turtles from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of East Asia.[1] Their exact position is engimatic, they have alternatively been considered stem-group cryptodires, but also "crownward stem-turtles" alongside Macrobaenidae, Paracryptodira, Xinjiangchelyidae, Thalassochelydia and Sandownidae outside of crown Testudines.