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Vertebrata Palasiatica ›› 1994, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (01): 66-68.

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NOTE ON A FOSSIL CUORA (TESTUDINES) FROM TONGSHAN, ANHUI

Ye Xiangkui   

  • Online:1994-03-15 Published:1994-03-15

安徽铜山上新世的闭壳龟化石

叶祥奎   

Abstract: Two pieces of fossil turtle from Tongshan, Anhui Province, probably of Late Pliocene, w ere sent to the present author for determination by the Anhui Provincial Museum. In view of the absence of bony bridge, the hexagonal neural plates with short-sided behind, and the hinged hyoplastra and hypoplastra of plastron, the fossils were recognized as a member of Cuora, a living genus of Emydidae distributed in East and Southeast Asia, chiefly in China. So far as it is known, no Pliocene fossil record of this genus has been reported.