Dermatemydidae

Dermatemydidae Temporal range: ?Late Cretaceous to present
A Dermatemydidae fossil from Hong Kong Science Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Kinosternoidea
Family:	Dermatemydidae Gray, 1870 [1]
Synonyms [1]
Dermatemydae - Gray, 1870 Dermatemydidae - Baur, 1888

The Dermatemydidae are a family of turtles. The family was named by John Edward Gray in 1870, and its only extant genus is Dermatemys . ^[1]

Subtaxa

• † Baptemys ^[2]
• Dermatemys ^[1]
• † Gomphochelys ^[2]
• † Notomorpha ^[2]

References

1. Rhodin 2011, p. 000.175
2. Bourque 2015 , p. 4

Bibliography

• 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" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-31.
• Bourque, J.R.; Howard Hutchison, J.; Holroyd, P.A.; Bloch, J.I. (2015). "A new dermatemydid (Testudines, Kinosternoidea) from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Willwood Formation, southeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (2) e905481. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E5481B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.905481. S2CID   85576289.