Adocidae | |
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Shell ofAdocus beatus,Peabody Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Clade: | †Adocusia |
Family: | †Adocidae Cope, 1870 |
Type species | |
†Emys beatus Leidy, 1865 | |
Subfamilies | |
TheAdocidae are an extinct family of aquatic and omnivorousturtles. They are freshwater cryptodiran turtles and are mainly known from Cretaceous and Paleogene Asia and North America.[2]
Phylogeny modified from Danilovet al. (2013).[2]Yehguia is most likely synonymous withSinaspideretes, and is placed outside of Adocidae here for reasons proposed in Tong, Li & Ouyang (2013).[3]
Species of this genus are present in Oligocene of Kazakhstan, Paleocene of United States, and the Cretaceous of Canada, Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Thailand, United States and Uzbekistan.