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Podocnemidoidea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	131452	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=131452

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Podocnemidoidea

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
-	Testudinata
order	Testudines	Batsch 1788
suborder	Pleurodira	Cope 1865
superfamily	Pelomedusoides	Broin 1988
superfamily	Podocnemidoidea	Gaffney et al. 2006

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Podocnemidoidea	superfamily	belongs to Podocnemidera	stated with evidence	Gaffney et al., 2006
Podocnemidoidea	superfamily	belongs to Pelomedusoides	stated without evidence	Pérez-García and Lapparent de Broin, 2013
Podocnemidoidea	superfamily	belongs to Pleurodira	implied	Georgalis et al., 2013
Podocnemidoidea	superfamily	belongs to Pelomedusoides	stated with evidence	Menegazzo et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

204

Extant Size (PBDB)

18 (8.8%)

First Recorded Appearance

140 - 136 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

freshwater (based on Pleurodira)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Pleurodira)

Reproduction

oviparous (based on Pleurodira)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bothremydidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	196	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Podocnemididae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Nostimochelone ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Podocnemidae unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	198	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Podocnemidinura ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	3	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2006	Podocnemidoidea Gaffney et al. p. 43
2013	Podocnemidoidea Georgalis et al.
2013	Podocnemidoidea Pérez-García and Lapparent de Broin
2013	Podocnemidoidea Pérez-García et al.
2015	Podocnemidoidea Menegazzo et al.
2017	Podocnemidoidea Pérez-García and Chapman p. 2
2018	Podocnemidoidea Pérez-García and Ortega

References

Gaffney E. S., Tong H., et al (2006) Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300, 1-318

Georgalis G. L., Velitzelos E., et al (2013) Nostimochelone lampra gen. et sp. nov., an Enigmatic New Podocnemidoidean Turtle from the Early Miocene of Northern Greece, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles, 277-287 doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4309-0_17

Pérez-García A., Lapparent de Broin F. (2013) A new species of Neochelys (Chelonii, Podocnemididae) from the Ypresian (Early Eocene) of the South of France, Comptes Rendus Palevol 12, 269-277 doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2013.05.011

Pérez-García A., Murelaga X., et al (2013) Presence of several clades of continental turtles in the Lutetian (Middle Eocene) of the Sobrarbe Formation (Ainsa Basin, South-Central Pyrenees, Northeast Spain), Geologica Belgica 16 4, 311-319

Menegazzo M. C., Bertini R. J., et al (2015) A new turtle from the Upper Cretaceous Bauru Group of Brazil, updated phylogeny and implications for age of the Santo Anastacio Formation, Journal of South American Earth Sciences 58, 18-32 doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2014.12.008

Pérez-García A., Chapman S. (2017) Identification of Podocnemididae (Pleurodira) in the British record by the first specimen of the coastal Eocenochelus recognized outside Continental Europe, Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 128 5-6, 757-763 doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2017.06.001

Pérez-García A., Ortega F. (2018) Identification of the French Upper Cretaceous bothremydid turtle Foxemys mechinorum in the Spanish record, Geobios 51 3, 211-217 doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2018.04.002

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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