xinjiangchelyid

English

Noun

xinjiangchelyid (plural xinjiangchelyids)

1. 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 […]