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Clade of turtles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pandermochelys is a clade of sea turtles belonging to the superfamily Chelonioidea.[1] It is defined as all turtles more closely related to leatherback sea turtles than to cheloniids (green sea turtles and relatives).[2] It includes the largest living turtles, the leatherback sea turtle, as well as the largest sea turtles of all time, Archelon.
Pandermochelys Temporal range: Early Cretaceous-Holocene, | |
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Leatherback sea turtle, a species of the family Dermochelyidae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Chelonioidea |
Clade: | Dermochelyoidae |
Clade: | Pandermochelys Joyce et al., 2004 |
Subgroups | |
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