The Pleurodira are one of the two living suborders of turtles, the other being the Cryptodira. The division between these two suborders represents a very...
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Chelidae is one of three living families of the turtle suborder Pleurodira, and are commonly called Austro-South American side-neck turtles. The family...
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from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked turtles), which differ...
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water bodies and is an opportunistic feeder. It is a side-necked turtle (Pleurodira), meaning that it bends its head sideways into its shell rather than pulling...
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3: 3–7. Thomson SA (2000). "A Revision of the Fossil Chelid Turtles (Pleurodira) Described by C.W. De Vis, 1897". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45...
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(2007-04-19). "Autopodial skeleton evolution in side-necked turtles (Pleurodira): Pleurodire autopodial evolution" (PDF). Acta Zoologica. 88 (3): 199–209...
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New data on the early diversification of Pelomedusoides (Testudines, Pleurodira) in northern Gondwana". Cretaceous Research. 102: 112–126. Bibcode:2019CrRes...
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Cheloniidae – sea turtles Family Dermochelyidae – leatherback turtles Suborder Pleurodira Family Chelidae – Austro-American sideneck turtles Family Pelomedusidae...
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List of reptile genera (section Suborder Pleurodira)
List of reptile genera lists the vertebrate class of reptiles by living genus, spanning two subclasses. Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines characterized...
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is a cladogram found by Sterli in 2010 in a phylogenetic analysis of Pleurodira: Below is a cladogram found by Joyce in 2007 in his publication on turtle...
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