Pancheloniidae is a clade of sea turtles[1] It is defined as all turtles more closely related to cheloniid sea turtles than to dermochelyid ("leatherback") sea turtles.[2]
Pancheloniids Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Holocene,
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Ctenochelys stenoporus skeletons | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Clade: | Panchelonioidea |
Clade: | Pancheloniidae |
Subgroups | |
The following genera are placed here:
The following list of non-cheloniid pancheloniid species was published by Hirayama and Tong in 2003[4]
Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships of living and extinct sea turtles in the clade Pancheloniidae based on Lynch and Parham (2003)[9] and Parham and Pyenson (2010).[10]
Pancheloniidae |
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