Pandermochelys

Pandermochelys
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous-Holocene, 110–0 Ma
Female, digging in the sand
Leatherback sea turtle, a species of the family Dermochelyidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Clade: Americhelydia
Clade: Dermochelyoidae
Clade: Pandermochelys
Joyce et al., 2004
Subgroups

Pandermochelys is a clade of sea turtles belonging to the superfamily Chelonioidea.[1] It is defined as all turtles more closely related to leatherback sea turtles than to cheloniids (green sea turtles and relatives).[2] 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 1617175Freely accessible. 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.
External identifiers for Pandermochelys
Encyclopedia of Life 32017644
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