Adocidae
Appearance
Adocidae | |
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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 |
Clade: | †Adocusia |
Family: | †Adocidae Cope, 1870 |
Type species | |
†Emys beatus Leidy, 1865
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Subfamilies | |
†Adocinae |
The Adocidae are an extinct family of aquatic and omnivorous turtles. They are freshwater cryptodiran turtles and are mainly known from Cretaceous and Paleogene Asia and North America. They are part of the Yehguia tatsuensis ( upper Jurassic of China) and sister taxon of Adocus turtles.[1]
Genera
- †Adocinae
- Adocus
- †Shachemydinae
- Adocoides
- Ferganemys
- Isanemys
- Mlynarskiella
- Protoshachemys
- Shachemys
- Shineusemys
- Yehguia
Distribution
Species of this genus are present in Oligocene of Kazakhstan, Paleocene of United States, and the Cretaceous of Canada, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Thailand, United States and Uzbekistan.
References
- ^ Danilov, Igor G.; Syromyatnikova, Elena V.; Skutschas, Pavel P.; Kodrul, Tatyana M.; Jin, Jianhua (2013). "The first 'true'Adocus(Testudines, Adocidae) from the Paleogene of Asia" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (5): 1071–1080. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.768254. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
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- The Paleobiology Database
- Paleocene Mammals
- Recently Collected Specimen of Adocus
- E.V. Syromyatnikova and I.G. Danilov [1]
- Yale Digital Content