Kinosternoidea

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| image_caption = Common musk turtle, a species of the superfamily Kinosternoidea

| taxon = Kinosternoidea

| authority = Joyce, Parham, and Gauthier 2004{{Harnvb|Rhodin|2011|pp=000.171-176}}

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Kinosternoidea is a superfamily of aquatic turtles, which includes two families: Dermatemydidae, and Kinosternidae.

Kinosternoids are cryptodires, turtles whose necks are able to retract within their shell. Molecular studies suggest they are likely the sister group to the snapping turtles of the family Chelydridae.{{cite journal|last1=Crawford|first1=Nicholas G.|last2=Parham|first2=James F.|last3=Sellas|first3=Anna B.|last4=Faircloth|first4=Brant C.|last5=Glenn|first5=Travis C.|last6=Papenfuss|first6=Theodore J.|last7=Henderson|first7=James B.|last8=Hansen|first8=Madison H.|last9=Simison|first9=W. Brian|title=A phylogenomic analysis of turtles|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=83|year=2015|pages=250–257|issn=1055-7903|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.021|pmid=25450099}} They are also omnivorous, oviparous, phosphatic, and actively mobile.{{Cite web|title=Kinosternoidea|url=https://www.mindat.org/taxon-P67314.html|access-date=2020-06-27|website=www.mindat.org}}

Classification

Family Dermatemydidae

::*Genus Dermatemys

::*Genus BaptemysWalter G. Joyce (2007) "[http://www.geo.uni-tuebingen.de/fileadmin/website/arbeitsbereich/palaeo/biogeologie/Images/Joyce_Publications/18__Joyce_2007.pdf Phylogenetic Relationships of Mesozoic Turtles] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606110806/http://www.geo.uni-tuebingen.de/fileadmin/website/arbeitsbereich/palaeo/biogeologie/Images/Joyce_Publications/18__Joyce_2007.pdf |date=2013-06-06 }}" Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

Family Kinosternidae

:*Genus Hoplochelys

:*Subfamily Staurotypinae

::*Genus Claudius

::*Genus Staurotypus

:*Subfamily Kinosterninae

::*Genus Kinosternon

::*Genus Sternotherus

=Past classification=

The entirely unrelated big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) was previously included in classification.

References

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