Nanhsiungchelyidae
| Nanhsiungchelyidae Temporal range:
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| Basilemys variolosa skeleton, Royal Tyrrell Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Infraorder: | Eucryptodira |
| Family: | †Nanhsiungchelyidae Yeh, 1966 |
| Type species | |
| †Nanhsiungchelys wuchingensis Yeh, 1966
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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.