Adocidae Temporal range:
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Shell of Adocus beatus, Peabody Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Clade: | †Adocusia |
Family: | †Adocidae Cope, 1870 |
Type species | |
†Emys beatus Leidy, 1865
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Subfamilies | |
†Adocinae †Shachemydinae |
The Adocidae are an extinct family of aquatic and omnivorous turtles. They are freshwater cryptodiran turtles and are mainly known from Cretaceous and Paleogene Asia and North America.[2]