Sinemydidae

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Sinemydidae
Temporal range: Oxfordian–Santonian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pantestudines
Clade: Testudinata
Clade: Perichelydia
Family: Sinemydidae
Yeh, 1963
Genera

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Sinemydidae is an extinct family of turtles from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of East Asia.[1] Their exact position is engimatic, they have alternatively been considered stem-group cryptodires, but also "crownward stem-turtles" alongside Macrobaenidae, Paracryptodira, Xinjiangchelyidae, Thalassochelydia and Sandownidae outside of crown Testudines.

Genera

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Material from the Paleocene of California previously attributed to c.f. Sinemyididae is now attributed to macrobaenids.[3]

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