Sinemys
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| Sinemys Temporal range: Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Family: | †Sinemydidae |
| Genus: | †Sinemys Wiman, 1930 |
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Sinemys is an extinct genus of turtle from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of China and Japan. Three species have been named: S. lens, the type species, from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian of Shandong; S. gamera, from the Valanginian-Albian of Nei Mongol; and S. wuerhoensis, from the Aptian-Albian of Xinjiang.[1]
References
- ^ Sinemys, The Paleobiology Database, retrieved 2008-04-02.
- Biology of Turtles by Jeanette Wyneken, Matthew H. Godfrey, and Vincent Bels
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Categories:
- Late Jurassic turtles
- Early Cretaceous turtles
- Late Jurassic reptiles of Asia
- Cryptodira
- Extinct animals of Japan
- Extinct animals of China
- Late Jurassic genus first appearances
- Early Cretaceous genus extinctions
- Early Cretaceous reptiles of Asia
- Prehistoric turtle genera
- Taxa named by Carl Wiman
- Fossil taxa described in 1930
- Prehistoric turtle stubs