xinjiangchelyid
English
editNoun
editxinjiangchelyid (plural xinjiangchelyids)
- 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 […]