Panchelonioidea

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Panchelonioidea
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous to Holocene 120–0  Ma
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Fossil of Toxochelys
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Clade: Americhelydia
Clade: Panchelonioidea
Joyce et al., 2004

Panchelonioidea is a clade of marine turtles that includes the sea turtles and related taxa.

Phylogeny

Evers et al. (2019): [1]

Panchelonioidea

References

  1. Evers, Serjoscha W.; Barrett, Paul M.; Benson, Roger B. J. (2019-05-01). "Anatomy of Rhinochelys pulchriceps (Protostegidae) and marine adaptation during the early evolution of chelonioids". PeerJ. 7: e6811. doi: 10.7717/peerj.6811 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   6500378 . PMID   31106054.