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Caretta (loggerhead)
Taxonomy
Caretta was named by Rafinesque (1814) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo R]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Carettinae.
It was assigned to Cheloniinae by Weems (1988); to Cheloniidae by Hay (1930), Berry and Lynn (1936), Carroll (1988), Dodd and Morgan (1992), Hirayama (1995), Frank and Ramus (1996), Parris et al. (2000) and Zug (2001); to Chelonia by Sepkoski (2002); to Testudines by Anquetin et al. (2009); to Cryptodira by Pérez-García et al. (2008) and Pérez-García and Ortega (2011); to Eucryptodira by Pérez-García (2012); and to Carettinae by Kuhn (1966), van Dijk et al. (2014) and Rhodin et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Cheloniinae by Weems (1988); to Cheloniidae by Hay (1930), Berry and Lynn (1936), Carroll (1988), Dodd and Morgan (1992), Hirayama (1995), Frank and Ramus (1996), Parris et al. (2000) and Zug (2001); to Chelonia by Sepkoski (2002); to Testudines by Anquetin et al. (2009); to Cryptodira by Pérez-García et al. (2008) and Pérez-García and Ortega (2011); to Eucryptodira by Pérez-García (2012); and to Carettinae by Kuhn (1966), van Dijk et al. (2014) and Rhodin et al. (2017).
Species
C. caretta (syn. Testudo marina, Testudo cephalo, Testudo caouana, C. nasuta, C. gigas, Testudo nasicornis, C. atra, Testudo lauanna, Testudo corianna, Thalassochelys corticata, Caouana elongata, Chelonia pelasgica, Chelonia pelasgorum), C. patriciae, Thalassochelys (Colpochelys), Thalassochelys (Halichelys), Thalassochelys bellunensis, Thalassochelys caouana, Thalassochelys caretta, Thalassochelys eocaenica, Thalassochelys libyca, Thalassochelys mutinensis, Thalassochelys phosphatica, Thalassochelys testei
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1814 | Caretta Rafinesque |
| 1835 | Thalassochelys Fitzinger p. 121 |
| 1838 | Caouana Cocteau and Bibron |
| 1843 | Halichelys Fitzinger |
| 1875 | Thalassochelys Cope p. 51 |
| 1889 | Thalassochelys Lydekker pp. 49-50 |
| 1903 | Thalassochelys Stefano p. 68 |
| 1906 | Thalassochelys Andrews p. 287 |
| 1930 | Caretta Hay p. 82 |
| 1936 | Caretta Berry and Lynn p. 189 |
| 1966 | Caretta Kuhn p. 29 |
| 1988 | Caretta Carroll |
| 1988 | Caretta Weems p. 141 figs. Table 2 |
| 1992 | Caretta Dodd, Jr. and Morgan p. 3 |
| 1995 | Caretta Hirayama p. 282 |
| 1996 | Caretta Frank and Ramus |
| 2000 | Caretta Parris et al. p. 230 |
| 2001 | Caretta Zug p. 207 |
| 2002 | Caretta Sepkoski |
| 2008 | Caretta Pérez-García et al. |
| 2009 | Caretta Anquetin et al. |
| 2011 | Caretta Pérez-García and Ortega |
| 2012 | Caretta Pérez-García |
| 2014 | Caretta van Dijk et al. |
| 2017 | Caretta Rhodin et al. |
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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]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: superf = superfamily, subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Uetz 2005, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
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. (18532 45478 60036) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian - Zanclean | USA (Florida) | Caretta 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 | Italy (Sicily) | Caretta caretta (175523) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Caretta caretta (21688) |