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Revision as of 16:32, 10 February 2019
Adocus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous - Oligocene,
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Shell of Adocus beatus, Peabody Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | †Adocidae |
Subfamily: | †Adocinae |
Genus: | †Adocus Cope, 1868 |
Type species | |
†Adocus beatus Leidy, 1865
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Species | |
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Adocus is an extinct genus of aquatic turtles belonging to the family Adocidae. Adocus was once considered a genus belonging to the family Dermatemyidae.
Description
Species of the genus Adocus had flattened and smoothly contoured shells with horny sculptured plates. The shells could reach a length of about 80 cm. These large freshwater turtles had an omnivorous diet. They lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Paleocene in North America, but in Asia, they were also present during the Oligocene.
Distribution
These turtles have been found in Cretaceous to Paleocene of United States and in the Cretaceous of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, the United States, and Uzbekistan.
Species
- Adocus agilis
- Adocus aksary
- Adocus beatus, type species (synonyms: A. punctatus, A. lacer)
- Adocus bossi
- Adocus bostobensis
- Adocus dzhurtasensis
- Adocus firmus
- Adocus foveatus
- Adocus hesperius
- Adocus kirtlandius
- Adocus kizylkumensis
- Adocus lineolatus
- Adocus onerosus
- Adocus orientalis
- Adocus pravus
- Adocus sengokuensis
- Adocus syntheticus
References
- The Paleobiology Database
- Paleocene Mammals
- Recently Collected Specimen of Adocus
- E.V. Syromyatnikova and I.G. Danilov [1]
- Yale Digital Content