Manchurochelys is an extinct genus of turtle. It existed during the early Cretaceous of what is now northeast China.Chinese Fossil Vertebrates by Spencer G. Lucas. Retrieved on 2008-08-24. It has been found in the Jianshangou Bed of West Liaoning's Yixian Formation.Jianshangou Bed of the Yixian Formation in West Liaoning, China; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004-02-06. Retrieved on 2008-08-25. However, it is a rarely found fossil.
Manchurochelys was first named by Endo and Shikama in 1942, and contains the single species, M. manchoukuoensis (sometimes misspelled M. manchouensis). A second species, M. liaoxensis, was named in 1995 but was later shown to be a species of Ordosemys.Tong, H., Ji, S. and Ji, Q. (2004). "Ordosemys (Testudines, Cryptodira) from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, northeastern China: new specimens and systematic revision." American Museum Novitates, 3438: 1-20. It has been occasionally placed in the family Sinemydidae, although it is said to more likely belong in the family Macrobaenidae.Fossil Turtle Newsletter. Retrieved on 2008-08-26.
References
Further reading The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin The Osteology of the Reptiles by Alfred Sherwood Romer
External links Manchurochelys at the Paleobiology Database Paleo File.com's Alphabetical list, M. section.