Adocidae

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. They are part of the Yehguia tatsuensis ( upper Jurassic of China) and sister taxon of Adocus turtles.[1]

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

Adocidae
Shell of Adocus beatus, Peabody Museum of Natural History
Scientific 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

Genera
  • †Adocinae
  • Adocus
  • †Shachemydinae
  • Adocoides
  • Ferganemys
  • Isanemys
  • Mlynarskiella
  • Protoshachemys
  • Shachemys
  • Shineusemys
  • Yehguia

Distribution

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

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References
  1. Danilov, Igor G.; Syromyatnikova, Elena V.; Skutschas, Pavel P.; Kodrul, Tatyana M.; Jin, Jianhua (2013). "The first 'true'Adocus(Testudines, Adocidae) from the Paleogene of Asia" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (5): 1071–1080. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.768254. Retrieved 2020-03-07.


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