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Testudinoidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of turtles}}

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| image = Midland painted turtle.jpg

| image_caption = Midland painted turtle (Chrysemys picta marginata) a species of the family Emydidae in the Testudinoidea superfamily

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| taxon = Testudinoidea

| authority = Fitzinger, 1826{{Harnvb|Rhodin|2011|p=000.178}}

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = * {{extinct}}Wutuchelys

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Testudinoidea is a superfamily within the suborder Cryptodira of the order Testudines. It includes the pond turtles (Family: Emydidae), Asian turtles (Family: Geoemydidae), the monotypic big-headed turtle (Family: Platysternidae), and the tortoises (Family: Testudinidae).

Systematics

A 2021 study found the clade to be divided into two extant groups: Testuguria, containing Geoemydidae and Testudinidae; and Emysternia, containing Emydidae and Platysternidae. The extinct Lindholmemydidae, formerly classified in Testudinoidea, may fall outside the crown group of Testudinoidea, although there is not yet enough evidence for this.{{Cite journal|last1=Joyce|first1=Walter G.|last2=Anquetin|first2=Jérémy|last3=Cadena|first3=Edwin-Alberto|last4=Claude|first4=Julien|last5=Danilov|first5=Igor G.|last6=Evers|first6=Serjoscha W.|last7=Ferreira|first7=Gabriel S.|last8=Gentry|first8=Andrew D.|last9=Georgalis|first9=Georgios L.|last10=Lyson|first10=Tyler R.|last11=Pérez-García|first11=Adán|date=2021-02-09|title=A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names|journal=Swiss Journal of Palaeontology|volume=140|issue=1|pages=5|doi=10.1186/s13358-020-00211-x|issn=1664-2384|doi-access=free|bibcode=2021SwJP..140....5J |hdl=11336/155192|hdl-access=free}}

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  • {{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 }}

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