xinjiangchelyid

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xinjiangchelyid (plural xinjiangchelyids)

  1. Any member of the family †Xinjiangchelyidae of extinct turtles.
    • 2009, Eric Buffetaut, Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Ecosystems in SE Asia, page 142:
      Fragments of plastron with a peg-like process on the lateral plastral margin indicate a ligamentous attachment between the carapace and plastron, as in xinjiangchelyids and macrobaenids.
    • 2013, Joachim Reitner, Qun Yang, Yongdong Wang, Palaeobiology and Geobiology of Fossil Lagerstätten through Earth History:
      [] a mass accumulation of exceptionally well preserved xinjiangchelyid turtles []