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Adocidae

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Adocidae
Shell of Adocus punctatus, USA, New Jersey, Cretaceous period, at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale
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Adocidae Cope 1870

Adocidae is an extinct family of aquatic and omnivore turtles.

Skull and shell of Glyptops ornatus, and shell of Adocus punctatus

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Distribution

Species of this genus are present in Oligocene of Kazakhstan, Paleocene of United States, Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States, Cretaceous of Canada, Japan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Thailand, United States and Uzbekistan.

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