Nanhsiungchelyidae is an extinct family of land turtles known from Cretaceous deposits in Asia and North America. Nanhsiungchelyids were more terrestrial than many of their contemporaries, and may have gone extinct at the end of the Cretaceous as a result.
Nanhsiungchelyidae is an extinct family of land turtles known from Cretaceous deposits in Asia and North America. Nanhsiungchelyids were more terrestrial than many of their contemporaries, and may have gone extinct at the end of the Cretaceous as a result.
==Classification== The name Nanhsiungchelyidae was coined by Yeh in 1966, in the same paper in which the type genus Nanhsiungchelys was described. The name is derived from the name of the type species, with the suffix of a family, -idae, added to it.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).