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Pandermochelys

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Clade of turtles

Pandermochelys
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous-Holocene, 110–0 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Female, digging in the sand
Leatherback sea turtle, a species of the family Dermochelyidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Chelonioidea
Clade: Dermochelyoidae
Clade: Pandermochelys
Joyce et al., 2004
Subgroups

Pandermochelys is a clade of sea turtles belonging to the superfamily Chelonioidea. It is defined as all turtles more closely related to leatherback sea turtles than to cheloniids (green sea turtles and relatives). It includes the largest living turtles, the leatherback sea turtle, as well as the largest sea turtles of all time, Archelon.

References

  1. Kear BP, Lee MS (March 2006). "A primitive protostegid from Australia and early sea turtle evolution". Biol. Lett. 2 (1): 116–9. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2005.0406. PMC 1617175. PMID 17148342.
  2. Joyce W.G, Parham J.F, Gauthier J.A. Developing a protocol for the conversion of rank-based taxon names to phylogenetically defined clade names, as exemplified by turtles. J. Paleont. 2004;78:989–1013.
Testudines
Suborder
Superfamily
Family
Genus
Cryptodira
Chelonioidea
(Sea turtles)
Cheloniidae
Dermochelyidae
 
Kinosternoidea
Dermatemydidae
Kinosternidae
Testudinoidea
Emydidae
Geoemydidae
 Platysternidae
Testudinidae
Trionychia
Carettochelyidae
Trionychidae
 
 
Chelydridae
Nanhsiungchelyidae
Protostegidae
 
Pleurodira
 
Araripemydidae
Bothremydidae
Chelidae
Pelomedusidae
Podocnemididae
Sahonachelyidae
 
 
 
Taxon identifiers
Pandermochelys
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