A New Species Of Prehistoric Turtle
Xiaochelys ningchengensis named by Chang-Fu Zhou of Shenyang Normal University in Shenyang, China, and Márton Rabi of the University of Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany is a new prehistoric turtle species recently discovered in China. The new species lived about 125 million years ago in China, during the Early Cretaceous Epoch (about 145 to 100.5 million years ago). Xiaochelys ningchengensis is known from a single fossil that includes the turtle’s entire shell, as well as its skull, neck vertebrae, tail vertebrae, right forelimb, and left hind limb.
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