The Cryptodira (Greek: hidden neck) are a suborder of Testudines that includes most living tortoises and turtles. Cryptodira is commonly called the "Hidden-Neck...

divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked turtles), which differ in the way the head retracts. There...

in tortoises is generally hard, and like other members of the suborder Cryptodira, they retract their necks and heads directly backward into the shell to...

marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira. The seven existing species of sea turtles are the flatback, green, hawksbill...

Pleurodira are one of the two living suborders of turtles, the other being the Cryptodira. The division between these two suborders represents a very deep evolutionary...

treated as a suborder sister to Cryptodira, they were then thought to be a very primitive lineage inside the Cryptodira according to the most common use...

List of reptiles of the Canary Islands is an incomplete list of reptiles found in the Canary Islands. This list includes both endemic and introduced species...

Testudinoidea is a superfamily within the suborder Cryptodira of the order Testudines. It includes the pond turtles (Family: Emydidae), Asian turtles (Family:...

(although birds are considered reptiles in the cladistic sense). Suborder Cryptodira Family Chelydridae – common snapping turtles and alligator snapping turtle...

representative of the Trionychia, and is possibly the oldest known member of Cryptodira. In 2013, it was proposed that this animal and the genus Yehguia are in...

testudinates. The two modern groups of turtles (Testudines), Pleurodira and Cryptodira, diverged by the beginning of the Late Jurassic. The oldest known pleurodires...

and body size evolution of extant and extinct tortoises (Testudines: Cryptodira: Pan-Testudinidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 652–683. doi:10.1111/cla.12227...

Sinemydidae and Xinjiangchelyidae, which are sometimes considered members of Cryptodira, have also been found outside crown Testudines in several analyses. These...

This is a list of the reptiles of Turkey. There are 136 species of reptiles in Turkey. Family: Blanidae Genus: Blanus Alexander's worm lizard (Blanus alexandri)...

(1957). "Revision of the African tortoises and turtles of the suborder Cryptodira". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 115: 163–557. Bour R (2006). "Identity...

Emarginachelys cretacea is a turtle belonging to the group Cryptodira, known from well preserved fossils from the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous...

Protostegidae as basal eucryptodiran turtles lying outside the crown group of Cryptodira (the least inclusive clade containing all living cryptodirans) and closely...

Fagan, M; Evans, SE (2012). "The head and neck anatomy of sea turtles (Cryptodira: Chelonioidea) and skull shape in Testudines". PLOS ONE. 7 (11): e47852...

Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Suborder: Cryptodira Superfamily: Testudinoidea Family: Emydidae Genus: Terrapene Species:...

Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Suborder: Cryptodira Superfamily: Testudinoidea Family: Testudinidae Genus: †Alatochelon Pérez-García...

Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Suborder: Cryptodira Superfamily: Chelonioidea Family: Cheloniidae Subfamily: Cheloniinae Genus:...

turtles in the clade Thalassochelydia originally classified within the Cryptodira suborder, mostly belonging from the Jurassic period. An alternate study...

Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Suborder: Cryptodira Superfamily: Chelonioidea Genus: †Kimurachelys Brinkman et. al., 2015...

List of reptile genera lists the vertebrate class of reptiles by living genus, spanning two subclasses. Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines characterized...

developmental work have considered sea turtles to be basal members of Cryptodira and kinosternids related to the trionychians in the clade Trionychoidea...

Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Suborder: Cryptodira Family: Kinosternidae Genus: Sternotherus Species: S. intermedius Binomial...

Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Clade: Diapsida Order: Testudines Suborder Cryptodira Pleurodira   Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on Turtles of the...

2014). "New generic proposal for the European Neogene large testudinids (Cryptodira) and the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the medium and large representatives...

introduction, with confirmed sightings only in The Burren) Suborder: Cryptodira Superfamily: Chelonioidea (sea turtles) Family: Dermochelyidae Genus:...

five taxa, four from Chelidae (Pleurodira) and one from Meiolaniidae (Cryptodira). Plesiosaurs include two elasmosaurs (Kawanectes and Chubutinectes) and...