| Dermochelyidae Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Holocene, 84–0 Ma |
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| Dermochelys is the only living representative of the leatherback turtles. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Clade: | Dermochelyoidae |
| Family: | Dermochelyidae Fitzinger, 1843[1] |
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The Dermochelyidae are a family of turtles which has eight extinct genera and one extant genus, including the largest living sea turtles.
Classification of known genera[edit]
The following list of dermochelyid species was published by Hirayama and Tong in 2003, unless otherwise noted.[2]
- †Arabemys crassiscutata
- †Corsochelys haliniches
- †Eosphargis breineri
- †Mesodermochelys undulatus
- †Ocepechelon bouyai[3]
- Subfamily Dermochelyinae[4]
- †Cosmochelys
- Dermochelys coriacea – leatherback sea turtle[4]
- †Psephophorus
References[edit]
- ^ a b Rhodin 2011, p. 000.174
- ^ Hirayama, R., & Tong, H. (2003). "Osteopygis (Testudines: Cheloniidae) from the Lower Tertiary of the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin, Morocco." Palaeontology, 46(5): 845-856.
- ^ Bardet, N.; Jalil, N. E.; De Lapparent De Broin, F.; Germain, D.; Lambert, O.; Amaghzaz, M. (2013). Viriot, Laurent, ed. "A Giant Chelonioid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco with a Suction Feeding Apparatus Unique among Tetrapods". PLoS ONE 8 (7): e63586. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063586.
- ^ a b "Natural history of seas turtles: paleontologic history" (PDF). pp. 21–2.
Bibliography[edit]
- Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status". Chelonian Research Monographs 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22.
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