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Carettinae
Taxonomy
Carettinae was named by Gray (1825). It is extant. Its type is Caretta.
It was assigned to Chelonidae by Kuhn (1966); and to Cheloniidae by van Dijk et al. (2014) and Rhodin et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Chelonidae by Kuhn (1966); and to Cheloniidae by van Dijk et al. (2014) and Rhodin et al. (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Carettinae Gray |
| 1966 | Carettinae Kuhn p. 29 |
| 2014 | Carettinae van Dijk et al. |
| 2017 | Carettinae Rhodin et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Subfm. Carettinae Gray 1825
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G. Caretta Rafinesque 1814 [loggerhead]
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Caretta caretta Linnaeus 1758 [loggerhead sea turtle]
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Invalid names: Caouana elongata Gray 1844 [synonym], Caretta atra Merrem 1820 [synonym], Caretta gigas Deraniyagala 1933 [synonym], Caretta nasuta Rafinesque 1814 [synonym], Chelonia pelasgica Bibron and Bory de Saint-Vincent 1833 [synonym], Chelonia pelasgorum Valenciennes in Bory de Saint-Vincent 1833 [synonym], Testudo caouana Lacepède 1788 [synonym], Testudo cephalo Schneider 1783 [synonym], Testudo corianna Gray 1831 [synonym], Testudo lauanna Meyer 1790 [synonym], Testudo marina Garsault 1764 [synonym], Testudo nasicornis Lacepède 1788 [synonym], Thalassochelys corticata Girard 1858 [synonym]
†Caretta patriciae Zug 2001
Invalid names: Caouana Cocteau and Bibron 1838 [synonym], Halichelys Fitzinger 1843 [synonym], Thalassochelys Fitzinger 1835 [synonym]
G. Eretmochelys Fitzinger 1843
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Eretmochelys imbricata Linnaeus 1766 [hawksbill turtle]
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Invalid names: Caretta bissa Ruppell 1835 [synonym], Caretta rostrata Girard 1858 [synonym], Caretta squamosa Girard 1858 [synonym], Chelonia pseudocaretta Lesson 1831 [synonym], Chelonia pseudomydas Lesson 1831 [synonym], Chelonia radiata Cuvier 1829 [synonym], Eretmochelys squamata Agassiz 1857 [synonym], Onychochelys kraussi Gray 1873 [synonym]
Invalid names: Herpysmostes Gistel 1868 [synonym], Onychochelys Gray 1873 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: superf = superfamily, subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Uetz 2005, Bush and Bambach 2015, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Eocene to the top of the Holocene or 55.80000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.6 Ma
Collections (16 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ypresian | Tunisia | Thalassochelys testei, Thalassochelys phosphatica (106501) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene | Germany | Caretta sp. (45802) | |
| Lutetian | United Kingdom (England) | Thalassochelys eocaenica (41847) | |
| Priabonian | Egypt | Thalassochelys libyca (79700) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Louisiana) | Caretta sp. (68441) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Caretta sp. (45478 60036) Caretta sp., Eretmochelys sp. (18532) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian - Zanclean | USA (Florida) | Caretta sp., Eretmochelys sp. (18535) | |
| Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | Caretta patriciae (52582) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Florida) | Caretta caretta (58089) Cheloniidae indet. (20400) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Caretta caretta (34269) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Mexico (Baja California) | Caretta caretta (191984) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Eretmochelys imbricata, Caretta caretta (21688) | |
| Holocene | Italy (Sicily) | Caretta caretta (175523) |