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 |
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Subfamilies | |
†Adocinae |
†Adocinae
†Shachemydinae
The Adocidae are an extinct family of aquatic and omnivorous turtles.
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.