Adocidae
| Adocid turtles | |
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| Shell of Adocus beatus, Peabody Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Clade: | †Adocusia |
| Family: | †Adocidae Cope, 1870 |
| Type species | |
| †Emys beatus Leidy, 1865 | |
| Subfamilies | |
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†Adocinae | |
The Adocidae are an extinct family of aquatic and omnivorous turtles.
Skull and shell of Glyptops ornatus, and shell of Adocus beatus
Genera
- †Adocinae
- Adocus
- †Shachemydinae
- Adocoides
- Ferganemys
- Isanemys
- Mlynarskiella
- Shachemys
- Shineusemys
- Yehguia
Distribution
Species of this genus are present in Oligocene of Kazakhstan, Paleocene of United States, and the Cretaceous of Canada, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Thailand, United States and Uzbekistan.
References
- The Paleobiology Database
- Paleocene Mammals
- Recently Collected Specimen of Adocus
- E.V. Syromyatnikova and I.G. Danilov
- Yale Digital Content
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