Family Chelydridae Swainson 1839 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae

Full reference: W. Swainson. 1839. On the natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles. Cabinet Cyclopaedia 2:1-452

Parent taxon: Cryptodira according to A. G. J. Rhodin et al. 2017

See also Baur 1893, Böhme 2008, Brinkman 2013, Cadena et al. 2017, Carroll 1988, Cope 1871, Cope 1875, Danilov and Parham 2008, de Broin and de la Fuente 1993, Frank and Ramus 1996, Gadow 1898, Gaffney 1975, Hay 1902, Hay 1908, Hay 1930, Holroyd and Hutchison 2002, Hutchison and Holroyd 2003, Hutchison et al. 2013, Jaekel 1911, Joyce 2016, Joyce et al. 2004, Knauss et al. 2011, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1966, Lambe 1908, Lydekker 1889, Mlynarski 1981, Peng et al. 2001, Perrier 1928, Shoshani et al. 1989, Stefano 1903, van Dijk et al. 2014 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Adocusia, Bashuchelyidae, Carettochelyoidea, Charitonyx tajanikolaevae, Chelonemydidae, Chelonioidea, Chelydroidea, Chersidae, Chitracephalus, Cryptoderinea, Dermatochelydidae, Dermochelyoidea, Durocryptodira, Eucryptodira, Galvechelone, Glyptopidae, Glyptopsidae, Indochelyidae, Kallokibotioninae, Kayentachelyidae, Kinosternia, Kinosternoidae, Meiolanidae, Nanhsiungchelyidae, Panchelonioidea, Pantestudinoidea, Pantrionychia, Platysternoidea, Polysternum, Selmacryptodira, Trionychia, Trionychidae, Trionychoidea, Tritosternidae

Subtaxa: Broilia Broilia robusta Chelydra Chelydra argillarum Chelydra strausi Chelydrinae Chelydrops Chelydropsinae Chelydropsis Chelydropsis minax Emys sansaniensis Emysaurus meilheuratiae Hydraspis oeningensis Leptochelys Leptochelys braneti Macrochelys Planiplastron Protochelydrinae Testudo grandis

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Type: Chelydra

Ecology: aquatic piscivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (1: Quebec collection), Ecuador (1), United States (28: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Blancan of United States (6: Florida, Kansas, Nebraska)

• Pliocene of Germany (2), Kazakhstan (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (2), Ukraine (1)

• Hemphillian of United States (6: California, Florida, Indiana, Nebraska, Tennessee)

• Miocene of Austria (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (10), Germany (15), Poland (1), Spain (17), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), United States (8: Florida, Nebraska)

• Oligocene to Miocene of France (1)

• Oligocene of France (8), Germany (2)

• Eocene of France (1), Germany (1), United States (4: New Mexico, Oregon, Utah)

• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Canada (1: Alberta), United States (5: Colorado, Montana)

• Cretaceous of Canada (52: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Mexico (2), United States (59: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 242 collections including 259 occurrences

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