Dermochelyidae
Encyclopedia
Dermochelyidae is a family
of turtles which has eight extinct and one extant genera
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Also
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of turtles which has eight extinct and one extant genera
Genera
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Classification of known genera
- Subfamily Desmatochelyinae
- Corochelys
- DesmatochelysDesmatochelysDesmatochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle.- External links :*...
- Subfamily Allopleuroninae
- AllopleuronAllopleuronAllopleuron hoffmani was a giant sea turtle, now extinct....
- EosphargisEosphargisEosphargis is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Eocene of Africa, Europe, and North America. It was first named by Richard Lydekker in 1889, and contains one species, E. gigas. The species is also known as Anglocetus beatsoni....
- Glyptochelone
- ProtosphargisProtosphargisProtosphargis is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of Italy. It was first named by Capellini in 1884.-Sources:* at the Paleobiology Database...
- Allopleuron
- Subfamily Dermochelyinae
- CosmochelysCosmochelysCosmochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Eocene of Africa. It was first named by Andrews in 1920, and contains one species, C. dolloi.-External links:* at the Paleobiology Database...
- Dermochelys
- Dermochelys coriacea – Leatherback sea turtle
- PsephophorusPsephophorusPsephophorus is an extinct genus of sea turtle that lived from the Oligocene to the Pliocene. Its remains have been found in Europe, Africa, North America, and New Zealand. It was first named by Hermann von Meyer in 1847, and contains seven species, P. polygonus, P. calvertensis, P. eocaenus, P....
- Cosmochelys
Also
- MesodermochelysMesodermochelysMesodermochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle known from the Santonian to the Campanian of what today is Japan. One species is known, the type species M. undulatus; it was given its binomial name by Ren Hirayama and Tsutomu Chitoku in 1996...