Dermochelyidae

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range =
Late Cretaceous-Holocene, {{fossil_range|84|0}}

| image = Stralsund, Germany, Meeresmuseum, Risenschildkröte (2006-10-23).JPG

| image_caption = Leatherback turtles are the only living representative of the Dermochelys family.

| taxon = Dermochelyidae

| authority = Fitzinger, 1843{{Harnvb|Rhodin|2011|p=000.174}}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = See text.

| synonyms = *Sphargidae Gray, 1825

Dermatochelydae Fitzinger, 1843
Athecae Cope, 1871
Athecata Lydekker, 1889
Dermochelyidae Lydekker, 1889

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Dermochelyidae is a family of sea turtles which has seven extinct genera and one extant genus, containing one living species, the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). The oldest fossils of the group date to the Late Cretaceous.

Classification of known genera

The following list of dermochelyid species was published by Hirayama and Tong in 2003, unless otherwise noted.{{cite journal | last1 = Hirayama | first1 = R. | last2 = Tong | first2 = H. | year = 2003 | title = Osteopygis (Testudines: Cheloniidae) from the Lower Tertiary of the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin, Morocco | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40662885 | journal = Palaeontology | volume = 46 | issue = 5| pages = 845–856 | doi=10.1111/1475-4983.00322| bibcode = 2003Palgy..46..845H | doi-access = free }}

{{extinct}}Arabemys crassiscutata
†Eosphargis breineri
{{extinct}}Mesodermochelys undulatus
Subfamily Dermochelyinae
†Cosmochelys
Dermochelys coriacea – leatherback sea turtle{{cite journal|url=http://www.scistp.org/resources/docs/2007_handbook_5_21-22.pdf|title=Natural history of seas turtles: paleontologic history|pages=21–2}}
†Psephophorus

File:Psephophorus NT small.jpg

Phylogeny

Evers et al. (2019):{{Cite journal|last1=Evers|first1=Serjoscha W.|last2=Barrett|first2=Paul M.|last3=Benson|first3=Roger B. J.|date=2019-05-01|title=Anatomy of Rhinochelys pulchriceps (Protostegidae) and marine adaptation during the early evolution of chelonioids|journal=PeerJ|volume=7|pages=e6811|doi=10.7717/peerj.6811|issn=2167-8359|pmc=6500378|pmid=31106054 |doi-access=free }}

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|label1=Panchelonioidea

|1={{Clade

|1=†Toxochelys

|2={{Clade

|1=†Protostegidae 60 px

|label2=Chelonioidea

|2={{Clade

|1=†Corsochelys

|2=Dermochelyidae 50 px

|3={{Clade

|1=†Nichollsemys

|2={{Clade

|1=†Allopleuron

|2={{Clade

|1=Cheloniidae 50 px

|2={{Clade

|1=†Argillochelys

|2=†Procolpochelys

|3={{Clade

|1=†Eochelone

|2=†Puppigerus }}

|4={{Clade

|1=†Ctenochelys

|2=†Peritresius

|3=†Cabindachelys

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References

Bibliography

{{Anchor|CITEREFRhodin2011}}{{cite journal |url=http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v4_2011.pdf |title=Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status |journal=Chelonian Research Monographs |volume=5 |date=2011-12-31 |author1=Rhodin, Anders G.J. |author2=van Dijk, Peter Paul |author3=Inverson, John B. |author4=Shaffer, H. Bradley |author5=Roger, Bour |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131102839/http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v4_2011.pdf |archive-date=2012-01-31 |url-status=dead }}

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20150214093651/http://wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/turtles.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=36 Family Dermochelyidae (Leatherback turtles) from Turtles of the World by C.H. Ernst, R.G.M. Altenburg & R.W. Barbour]

Category:Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger

Category:Turtle families

Category:Santonian first appearances

Category:Extant Santonian first appearances