Family Podocnemididae Cope 1868

Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae

Alternative spellings: Podocnemidae, Podocnemidae, Podocnemoidae, Podocnemoidae

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1868. On the origin of genera. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 20:242-300

Parent taxon: Pleurodira according to G. S. Ferreira et al. 2024

See also Cadena et al. 2012, Cadena et al. 2012, Cadena et al. 2021, Carvalho et al. 2002, Cherney et al. 2020, Cope 1871, Cope 1875, de Broin and de la Fuente 1993, de la Fuente 2003, de la Fuente et al. 2022, de la Fuente et al. 2014, de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2020, Ferreira et al. 2015, Gaffney et al. 2006, Gaffney and Wood 2002, Georgalis et al. 2020, Hutchison et al. 2004, Joyce et al. 2004, Kuhn 1966, Lapparent de Broin 2003, Pérez-García 2022, Pérez-García and Chapman 2017, Pérez-García and Lapparent de Broin 2013, Pérez-García et al. 2013, Silva Lacerda et al. 2020, van Dijk et al. 2014, Vlachos 2017, Vremir 2013 and Weems and Knight 2013

Sister taxa: Amphichelydidae, Chelidae, Eupleurodira, Megapleurodira, Minipleurodira, Notoemydidae, Panchelidae, Panpelomedusoides, Pelomedusoides, Platychelira

Subtaxa: Albertwoodemys Bairdemys Bauruemydinae Bauruemys Brontochelys Cambaremys Carbonemys Cerrejonemys Cordichelys Dacquemys Erymnochelyinae Erymnochelys Gestemys Kenyemys Lapparentemys Latentemys Lemurchelys Mogharemys Neochelys Papoulemys Peiropemys Peltocephalus Podocnemidinae Shweboemys Stereogenyina Stereogenyini Stereogenys Turkanemys

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (4 collections), Madagascar (2), Mexico (2), Venezuela (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)

• Pliocene of Colombia (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Kenya (7), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of Myanmar (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Brazil (1), Kenya (4)

• Miocene of Bolivia (1), Brazil (9), Colombia (14), Egypt (2), India (1), Kenya (3), Libya (1), Myanmar (1), Namibia (3), Panama (2), Peru (9), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (9: Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Puerto Rico), Venezuela (14)

• Neogene of Colombia (1)

• Arikareean of Panama (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Egypt (4), Kenya (1), Oman (2), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Italy (2)

• Eocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Belgium (2), Egypt (6), France (27), Germany (3), Italy (2), Mali (1), Myanmar (3), Panama (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Spain (28), the United Kingdom (1), Western Sahara (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (3), Bolivia (2), Colombia (1)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (6), India (1), Madagascar (1), Niger (3), Sudan (1)

Total: 213 collections including 238 occurrences

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