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Adocidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous–Paleogene
Shell of Adocus beatus, Peabody Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Clade: Adocusia
Family: Adocidae
Cope, 1870
Type species
Emys beatus
Leidy, 1865
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]

Skull and shell of Glyptops ornatus, and shell of Adocus beatus

Taxonomy

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Phylogeny modified from Danilov et al. (2013).[2] Yehguia is most likely synonymous with Sinaspideretes, and is placed outside of Adocidae here for reasons proposed in Tong, Li & Ouyang (2013).[3]

Trionychoidea

Distribution

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Species of this genus are present in Oligocene of Kazakhstan, Paleocene of United States, and the Cretaceous of Canada, Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Thailand, United States and Uzbekistan.

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