The Pleurodira are one of the two living suborders of turtles, the other being the Cryptodira. The division between these two suborders represents a very...
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Chelidae is one of three living families of the turtle suborder Pleurodira, and are commonly called Austro-South American side-neck turtles. The family...
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from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked turtles), which differ...
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3: 3–7. Thomson SA (2000). "A Revision of the Fossil Chelid Turtles (Pleurodira) Described by C.W. De Vis, 1897". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45...
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water bodies and is an opportunistic feeder. It is a side-necked turtle (Pleurodira), meaning that it bends its head sideways into its shell rather than pulling...
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(2007-04-19). "Autopodial skeleton evolution in side-necked turtles (Pleurodira): Pleurodire autopodial evolution" (PDF). Acta Zoologica. 88 (3): 199–209...
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Cheloniidae – sea turtles Family Dermochelyidae – leatherback turtles Suborder Pleurodira Family Chelidae – Austro-American sideneck turtles Family Pelomedusidae...
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List of reptile genera (section Suborder Pleurodira)
List of reptile genera lists the vertebrate class of reptiles by living genus, spanning two subclasses. Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines characterized...
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is a cladogram found by Sterli in 2010 in a phylogenetic analysis of Pleurodira: Below is a cladogram found by Joyce in 2007 in his publication on turtle...
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New data on the early diversification of Pelomedusoides (Testudines, Pleurodira) in northern Gondwana". Cretaceous Research. 102: 112–126. Bibcode:2019CrRes...
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Redbank Plains, Queensland, Australia. It is a member of the Chelidae Pleurodira. The fossil has been dated to the Eocene Epoch. Chelodina insculpta de...
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that includes most living tortoises and turtles. Cryptodira differ from Pleurodira (side-necked turtles) in that they lower their necks and pull the heads...
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turtle or simply the Arrau, is the largest of the side-neck turtles (Pleurodira) and the largest freshwater turtle in Latin America. The species primarily...
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aestivate through the dry season, burying themselves in the mud. Within Pleurodira, Pelomedusidae is more closely related to the South American and Malagasy...
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their shells. Side-neck turtles are classified as members of the suborder Pleurodira. Podocnemis unifilis is a large turtle, and can grow up to 45 cm long...
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Class: Reptilia Clade: Diapsida Order: Testudines Suborder Cryptodira Pleurodira Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on Turtles of the World 2017...
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terrestrial for testudinates. The two modern groups of turtles (Testudines), Pleurodira and Cryptodira, diverged by the beginning of the Late Jurassic. The oldest...
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Langer, M. C. (2024). "The latest freshwater giants: a new Peltocephalus (Pleurodira: Podocnemididae) turtle from the Late Pleistocene of the Brazilian Amazon"...
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; Jaramillo, Carlos A. (2010), "New Podocnemidid Turtle (Testudines: Pleurodira) from the Middle-Upper Paleocene of South America", Journal of Vertebrate...
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Class: Reptilia Clade: Diapsida Order: Testudines Suborder Cryptodira Pleurodira Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on Turtles of the World 2017...
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Class: Reptilia Clade: Diapsida Order: Testudines Suborder Cryptodira Pleurodira Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on Turtles of the World 2017...
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Class: Reptilia Clade: Diapsida Order: Testudines Suborder Cryptodira Pleurodira Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on Turtles of the World 2017...
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Class: Reptilia Clade: Diapsida Order: Testudines Suborder Cryptodira Pleurodira Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on Turtles of the World 2017...
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Some osteological aspects of Araripemys barretoi Price, 1973 (Chelonii, Pleurodira, Araripemydidae). In Atas do I Simpósio sobre a Bacia do Araripe e Bacias...
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length and 0.8–1.0 t (1,800–2,200 lb). The largest of side-necked turtles (Pleurodira) is the Arrau turtle (Podocnemis expansa). Its carapace length is up to...
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Class: Reptilia Clade: Diapsida Order: Testudines Suborder Cryptodira Pleurodira Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on Turtles of the World 2017...
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Class: Reptilia Clade: Diapsida Order: Testudines Suborder Cryptodira Pleurodira Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on Turtles of the World 2017...
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Class: Reptilia Clade: Diapsida Order: Testudines Suborder Cryptodira Pleurodira Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on Turtles of the World 2017...
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Class: Reptilia Clade: Diapsida Order: Testudines Suborder Cryptodira Pleurodira Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on Turtles of the World 2017...
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argentinus. Turtles are represented by at least five taxa, four from Chelidae (Pleurodira) and one from Meiolaniidae (Cryptodira). Plesiosaurs include two elasmosaurs...
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