Dortokidae

Dortokidae
Temporal range: Hauterivian–Paleocene
Fragmentary plastron of Ronella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Clade: Pan-Pleurodira
Family: †Dortokidae
Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga, 1999
Genera
  • Dortoka Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga, 1999
  • Eodortoka Pérez-García, Gasulla, and Ortega 2014.
  • Ronella Lapparent de Broin in Gheerbrant et al. 1999

Dortokidae is an extinct family of freshwater pan-pleurodiran turtles, known from the Cretaceous and Paleocene of Europe. Only four species have been named, but indeterminate fossils show that they were abundant across western and eastern-central Europe during the Cretaceous. The family is only known from postcranial remains.[1]

  1. ^ Pérez-García, A.; Cobos, A.; Royo-Torres, R. (2017-06-01). "The oldest evidence of a dortokid turtle (stem Pleurodira) from the uppermost Hauterivian-basal Barremian El Castellar Formation (Teruel, Spain)". Journal of Iberian Geology. 43 (2): 139–146. Bibcode:2017JIbG...43..139P. doi:10.1007/s41513-017-0013-7. ISSN 1886-7995. S2CID 135098500.