Adocidae

Adocidae
	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
Subfamilies
	†Adocinae; †Shachemydinae

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. S2CID 84373018. Retrieved 2020-03-07.

The Paleobiology Database
Paleocene Mammals
Recently Collected Specimen of Adocus
E.V. Syromyatnikova and I.G. Danilov [1]
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[1] 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. S2CID 84373018. Retrieved 2020-03-07.

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