Pancheloniidae
| Pancheloniids Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Holocene, 73–0Ma | |
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| Green sea turtle, a species of the family Cheloniidae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Chelonioidea |
| Clade: | Pancheloniidae Joyce et al., 2004 |
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Pancheloniidae is a clade of sea turtles belonging to the sea turtle superfamily Chelonioidea.[1] It is defined as all turtles more closely related to cheloniid sea turtles than to dermochelyid ("leatherback") sea turtles.[2]
Genera
The following list of non-cheloniid pancheloniid genera was published by Hirayama and Tong in 2003, unless otherwise noted.[3]
- Genus †Allopleuron
- Genus †Argillochelys
- Genus †Carolinochelys
- Genus †Catapleura
- Genus †Erquelinnesia
- Genus †Gigantatypus
- Genus †Glyptochelone
- Genus †Itilochelys[4]
- Genus †Lytoloma
- Genus †Osteopygis
- Genus †Pampaemys
- Genus †Peritresius
- Genus †Porthochelys
- Genus †Prionochelys
- Genus †Procolpochelys
- Genus †Retechelys
- Genus †Tasbacka
- Genus †Thinochelys
Cladogram
Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships of living and extinct sea turtles in the clade Pancheloniidae based on Lynch and Parham (2003)[5] and Parham and Pyenson (2010).[6]
Lytoloma fossil
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References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Hirayama, R., & Tong, H. (2003). "Osteopygis (Testudines: Cheloniidae) from the Lower Tertiary of the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin, Morocco." Palaeontology, 46(5): 845-856.
- ↑ Danilov, I.G.; Averianov, A.O; Yarkov, A.A. (2010). "Itilochelys rasstrigin gen. et sp. nov., a new hard-shelled sea turtle (Cheloniidae sensu lato) from the Lower Palaeocene of Volgograd Province, Russia" (PDF). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RSA 314 (1): 24–41.
- ↑ Lynch, S.C.; Parham, J.F. (2003). "The first report of hard-shelled sea turtles (Cheloniidae sensu lato) from the Miocene of California, including a new species (Euclastes hutchisoni) with unusually plesiomorphic characters" (PDF). PaleoBios 23 (3): 21–35.
- ↑ James F. Parham; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2010). "New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative Evolution of Feeding Ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous". Journal of Paleontology 84 (2): 231–247. doi:10.1666/09-077R.1.