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Article: A new Xinjiangchelyid turtle (Testudines, Eucryptodira) from the Jurassic Qigu Formation of the southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, north-west China

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 47
Part: 5
Publication Date: September 2004
Page(s): 1267 1299
Author(s): Andreas T. Matzke, Michael W. Maisch, Sun Ge, Hans-U. Pfretzschner and Henrik Stöhr
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MATZKE, A. T., MAISCH, M. W., GE, S., PFRETZSCHNER, H., STÖHR, H. 2004. A new Xinjiangchelyid turtle (Testudines, Eucryptodira) from the Jurassic Qigu Formation of the southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, north-west China. Palaeontology47, 5, 1267–1299.

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Abstract

A new eucryptodiran turtle, Xinjiangchelys qiguensis sp. nov. from the Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian - ?Kimmeridgian) Qigu Formation of the southern Junggar Basin (north-west China) is described. The type material consists of a partial skeleton, including the complete carapace, plastron, nearly all cervical vertebrae, both scapulae, the pelvis and one ulna. It is clearly identifiable as a basal eucryptodire since it lacks the mesoplastron. It is distinguished from other species of Xinjiangchelys by several autapomorphies of the carapace and plastron, such as the first and fifth vertebrals extending on the peripherals, the plastron with three pairs of gulars, and an intergular which does not contact the hyoplastron. In the postcranium, the scapula with a long acromial and a small scapular process, the pelvis with a short ilial shaft and the elongated cervical vertebrae are characteristic. A new phylogenetic analysis of the in-group phylogeny of the Xinjiangchelyidae is proposed and discussed, resulting in a new classification of the family. Xinjiangchelys (Toxocheloides) narynensis is regarded as a nomen dubium. Shartegemys is referred to Xinjiangchelys, whereas the holotypes of 'Plesiochelys'chungkingensis and 'P'. latimarginalis are excluded from the genus Xinjiangchelys but included in the Xinjiangchelyidae.
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