Kingdom Animalia Suborder Cryptodira Superfamily Chelonioidea Rank Family | Class Reptilia Clade Americhelydia Phylum Chordata Order Turtle | |
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Clade Pancheloniidae
Joyce et al., 2004 Similar Turtle, Euclastes, Puppigerus, Tasbacka, Toxochelys | ||
Pancheloniidae is a clade of sea turtles belonging to the sea turtle superfamily Chelonioidea. It is defined as all turtles more closely related to cheloniid sea turtles than to dermochelyid ("leatherback") sea turtles.
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Genera
The following list of non-cheloniid pancheloniid genera was published by Hirayama and Tong in 2003, unless otherwise noted.
Cladogram
Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships of living and extinct sea turtles in the clade Pancheloniidae based on Lynch and Parham (2003) and Parham and Pyenson (2010).
References
Pancheloniidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA