Dermochelyidae

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Dermochelyidae
Temporal range:
Ma
Dermochelys
family.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Chelonioidea
Family: Dermochelyidae
Fitzinger, 1843[1]
Genera

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Sphargidae Gray, 1825
  • Dermatochelydae Fitzinger, 1843
  • Athecae Cope, 1871
  • Athecata Lydekker, 1889
  • Dermochelyidae Lydekker, 1889

Dermochelyidae is a

genera and one extant genus, including the largest living sea turtles
.

Classification of known genera

The following list of dermochelyid species was published by Hirayama and Tong in 2003, unless otherwise noted.[2]

  • Arabemys crassiscutata
  • Eosphargis breineri
  • Mesodermochelys undulatus
  • Subfamily Dermochelyinae[3]
Hypothetical reconstruction of Psephophorus terrypratchetti

Phylogeny

Evers et al. (2019):[4]

 Panchelonioidea 

References

  1. ^ a b Rhodin 2011, p. 000.174
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  3. ^ a b "Natural history of seas turtles: paleontologic history" (PDF): 21–2. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. PMID 31106054
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