Pancheloniidae
Clade of turtles
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Pancheloniidae is a clade of sea turtles[1] It is defined as all turtles more closely related to cheloniid sea turtles than to dermochelyid ("leatherback") sea turtles.[2]
| Pancheloniids Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Holocene, | |
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| Ctenochelys stenoporus skeletons | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Clade: | Panchelonioidea |
| Clade: | Pancheloniidae |
| Subgroups | |
Genera
The following genera are placed here:
- †Argillochelys[3]
- †Catapleura[4]
- †Ctenochelyidae[4][5]
- †Erquelinnesia[4]
- †Glossochelys[4]
- †Glyptochelone[4]
- †Itilochelys[6]
- †Lytoloma[4]
- †Osteopygis[4]
- †Pampaemys[4]
- †Peritresius[4]
- †Porthochelys[4]
- †Prionochelys[4]
- †Procolpochelys[7]
- †Retechelys[4]
- †Thinochelys[4]
Historic taxon placement
The following list of non-cheloniid pancheloniid species was published by Hirayama and Tong in 2003[4]
- †Allopleuron hoffmani,[4] later assigned to Cheloniidae
- †Catapleura arcansaw[4]
- †Catapleura repanda[4]
- †Ctenochelys stenoporus[4]
- †Erquelinnesia gosseleti[4]
- †Glyptochelone suyckerbuykii[4]
- †Lytoloma cantabrigiens[4]
- †Osteopygis emarginatus[4]
- †Pampaemys meridionalis[4]
- †Peritresius ornatus[4]
- †Porthochelys laticeps[4]
- †Prionochelys nauta[4]
- †Retechelys platyops[4]
- †Tasbacka aldabergeni,[4] later assigned to Cheloniidae
- †Thinochelys lapisossea[4]
- †Toxochelys latiremis,[4] later assigned to clade Durocryptodira.[8]
Cladogram
Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships of living and extinct sea turtles in the clade Pancheloniidae based on Lynch and Parham (2003)[9] and Parham and Pyenson (2010).[10]
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