Pantestudines

Pantestudines
Temporal range: Middle Triassic - Holocene, 240–0 Ma Possible mid-Permian record[1]
Fossil specimen of Odontochelys semitestacea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archelosauria
Clade: Pantestudines
Joyce & Parham & Gauthier, 2004
Subgroups

Pantestudines or Pan-Testudines is the proposed group of all reptiles more closely related to turtles than to any other living animal. It includes both modern turtles (crown group turtles, also known as Testudines) and all of their extinct relatives (also known as stem-turtles).[2] Pantestudines with a complete shell are placed in the clade Testudinata.

  1. ^ Schoch, Rainer R.; Sues, Hans-Dieter (24 June 2015). "A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan". Nature. 523 (7562): 584–587. Bibcode:2015Natur.523..584S. doi:10.1038/nature14472. PMID 26106865. S2CID 205243837.
  2. ^ Joyce, W. G.; Parham, J. F.; Gauthier, J. A. (2004). "Developing a protocol for the conversion of rank-based taxon names to phylogenetically defined clade names, as exemplified by turtles". Journal of Paleontology. 78 (5): 989–1013. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.325.7353. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2004)078<0989:dapftc>2.0.co;2. S2CID 15078337.