Americhelydia | |
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Common musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus), a species of the familyKinosternidae | |
Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Clade: | Americhelydia Crawfordet al., 2014 |
Subclades | |
Americhelydia is a clade of turtles that consists ofsea turtles,snapping turtles, theCentral American river turtle andmud turtles, supported by several lines of molecular work.[4][5][6] Prior to these studies some morphological and developmental work have considered sea turtles to be basal members ofCryptodira and kinosternids related to thetrionychians in the clade Trionychoidea.[7][8] Americhelydia and Testudinoidea, both clades within Durocryptodira (hardshell turtles), split a part during the early Cretaceous.[9][10]