Presence of the Jehol Biota turtle Ordosemys liaoxiensis in the Early Cretaceous Hengtongshan Formation of southern Jilin Province, China
Author
Zhou, Chang-Fu
Wen-Hao Wu & College of Earth Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology,
Author
Wu, Wen-Hao
MAErton Rabi & Key Laboratory for Evolution of Past Life and Environment in Northeast Asia, Ministry of Education, & MAErton Rabi & Research Center of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University, Changchun 130056, Jilin, China
Author
Rabi, MAErton
Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany & Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Fossil Record
2019
2019-09-12
22
2
57
64
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/fr-22-57-2019
journal article
303031
10.5194/fr-22-57-2019
0ad3f0c0-7aaf-4361-b190-3f2df57254e0
2193-0074
13755613
Ordosemys liaoxiensis
(
Ji 1995
)
(
Figs. 2–4
)
Specimens
XL-007 (
Fig. 3
), a subadult specimen with most of the shell; XL-008 (
Fig. 4
), a juvenile skeleton including a partial skull, cervicals, shell and forelimbs; XL-009 (
Fig. 2
), an adult skeleton including a partial carapace, much of the plastron, and some appendicular bones. These fossils are deposited in the Paleontological Collection of Xingling Town (XL).
Locality and horizon
A quarry (GPS: 42
◦
24
Į
54.52
ĮĮ
N, 125
◦
51
Į
02.21
ĮĮ
E) near Shuanghe Village, Xingling Town, Meihekou City, southern
Jilin Province
,
China
(
Fig. 1
); the Early Cretaceous Hengtongshan Formation (119–123 Myr).