Dermochelyidae

Dermochelyidae; Temporal range: ; Late Cretaceous-Holocene, 84–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Dermochelys is the only living representative of the leatherback turtles.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Chelonioidea
Family:	Dermochelyidae; Fitzinger, 1843[1]
Genera
	See text.
Synonyms[1]
	Sphargidae Gray, 1825; Dermatochelydae Fitzinger, 1843; Athecae Cope, 1871; Athecata Lydekker, 1889; Dermochelyidae Lydekker, 1889;

Dermochelyidae is a family of turtles which has seven extinct genera and one extant genus, including the largest living sea turtles.

Classification of known genera

The following list of dermochelyid species was published by Hirayama and Tong in 2003, unless otherwise noted.[2]

†Arabemys crassiscutata
†Eosphargis breineri
†Mesodermochelys undulatus
Subfamily Dermochelyinae[3]
- †Cosmochelys
- Dermochelys coriacea – leatherback sea turtle[3]
- †Psephophorus

Hypothetical reconstruction of Psephophorus terrypratchetti

Evers et al. (2019):[4]

Dermochelyidae

†Nichollsemys

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Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22.

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