Articles | Volume 22, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-22-57-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-22-57-2019
Research article
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12 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 12 Sep 2019

Presence of the Jehol Biota turtle Ordosemys liaoxiensis in the Early Cretaceous Hengtongshan Formation of southern Jilin Province, China

Chang-Fu Zhou, Wen-Hao Wu, and Márton Rabi

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Short summary
The Jehol Biota of northeastern China (western Liaoning and conjoint areas) is renowned for its exquisite preservation of plant, invertebrate and vertebrate fossils. Here, we report three new specimens of the freshwater sinemydid turtle Ordosemys liaoxiensis from Hengtongshan Formation of Meihekou City, Jilin Province, northeastern China. As the first Mesozoic turtle of Jilin Province, this record represents the first tetrapod to indicate the presence of the Jehol Biota in the region.
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