First Record of Soft-shelled Turtle(Testudines,Trionychidae)from the Late Pleistocene of Heilongjiang,Northeast China

• 作者: WU Wenhao DONG Nan LI Xiaobo ZHOU Changfu FENG Nan Robert R.REISZ
• 来源期刊: 地质学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（4）
• 所属期刊栏目: RESEARCH ADVANCES
• 页码范围: 1409-1410
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Objective Numerous vertebrate fossils,dominated by the Mammuthus-Coelodonta fauna,have been found from many Late Pleistocene fossil sites in Heilongjiang,northeast China(Jin and Kawamura,1996).However,fossil turtles have not yet been reported.Recently,two soft-shelled turtle(trionychid)costal plates have been discovered together with other typical Mammuthus-Coelodonta fauna fossils. Soft-shelled turtle fossil remains are scarce in northeast China.To date,only three taxa(Khunnuchelys erinhotenisis,Perochelys lamadongensis,"Trionyx"jixiensis)have been reported from Cretaceous deposits(Li and Tong,2017).Cenozoic soft-shelled turtle fossils are extremely rare and have not received any formal description.The specimens we describe in this study fill a noticeable gap in the soft-shelled turtle fossil record of the Cenozoic of northeast China,which provides new fossil data for studying the diversity and stratigraphic distribution of the group.