Pantestudines
| Pantestudines Temporal range: Late Triassic - Holocene, 220–0Ma | |
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| Fossil specimen of Odontochelys semitestacea | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archelosauria |
| Clade: | Pantestudines Klein, 1760 |
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Pantestudines is the group of all tetrapods more closely related to turtles than to any other animals. It includes both modern turtles (Testudines) and all of their extinct relatives (stem-turtles).[1]
Classification
The cladogram shown below follows the most likely result found by an analysis of turtle relationships using both fossil and genetic evidence by M.S. Lee, in 2013.[2]
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References
- ↑ Joyce, W. G., Parham, J. F., & Gauthier, J. A. (2004). "Developing a protocol for the conversion of rank-based taxon names to phylogenetically defined clade names, as exemplified by turtles." Journal of Paleontology, 78(5): 989-1013.
- ↑ Lee, M. S. Y. (2013). "Turtle origins: Insights from phylogenetic retrofitting and molecular scaffolds". Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26 (12): 2729. doi:10.1111/jeb.12268.