Alternative spelling: Pleurodiri
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1865. Third contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 17:185-198
Parent taxon: Testudines according to A. Pérez-Garcia 2020
See also Agnolín et al. 2023, Andrews 1906, Antunes 1964, Apesteguía et al. 2012, Baur 1893, Cadena et al. 2012, Cadena and Joyce 2015, Carroll 1988, Cope 1871, Cope 1875, Danilov and Parham 2008, de la Fuente and Bona 2002, de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent 2001, de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2020, Delair 1958, Gadow 1898, Gaffney 1975, Gaffney et al. 2006, Gaffney and Wood 2002, Gasparini et al. 2015, Georgalis et al. 2020, Haas 1978, Hay 1902, Hay 1908, Hay 1930, Huene 1954, Hutchison et al. 2004, Jaekel 1911, Joyce 2007, Joyce et al. 2004, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1966, Lapparent de Broin and Molnar 2001, López-Conde et al. 2021, Lydekker 1889, Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004, Miller 1967, Moyano-Paz et al. 2022, Olson 1947, Oriozabala et al. 2020, Osborn 1904, Pérez-García 2017, Pérez-García and Chapman 2017, Pérez-García and Lapparent de Broin 2013, Pérez-García et al. 2013, Pérez-García et al. 2013, Pérez-García and Ortega 2018, Perrier 1928, Previtera and González Riga 2008, Puntener et al. 2014, Roxo 1937, Silva Lacerda et al. 2020, Swinton 1934, Thurmond and Jones 1981, van Dijk et al. 2014, Vremir 2013, Weems and Knight 2013, Wood 1975, Wood 1976, Woodward 1898, Zangerl 1948 and Zittel 1890
Sister taxa: Amphichelydia, Apertotemporalis, Apholidemys, Asturichelys, Casichelydia, Chelone obovata, Chelone sopita, Chelonipus, Cryptodira, Cryptrodiramorpha, Entoplastrites, Euclastochelys, Euclastochelys interrupta, Haichemydidae, Larachelus, Meiolania damelipi, Odontochelys, Pancryptodira, Panpleurodira, Platychelone, Platychelone emarginata, Plesiochelydiae, Podocnemis lata, Proganochelydia, Senonemys suemegensis, Sokotochelys, Tacuarembemys, Temnoclemmys cordiformis, Triassochelys, Trionyx fuchienensis, Trionyx tshelkarensis, Terrestria, Fluvialia, Marina, Cryptodiramorpha, Paludinosa, Tomochelone, Padiochelys, Pseudosphargis, Therezinosaurus, Protemys, Metachelydia, Halmyrachelidae, Pachychelys, Chelycarapookidae, Chelonoides, Oligochelone, Glaucochelone
Subtaxa: Amphichelydidae Chelidae Eupleurodira Megapleurodira Minipleurodira Notoemydidae Panchelidae Panpelomedusoides Pelomedusoides Platychelira Podocnemididae