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Adocid
The Adocidae are an extinct family of aquatic and omnivorous turtles. They are freshwater cryptodiran turtles and are mainly known from Cretaceous and Paleogene Asia and North America. Taxonomy Phylogeny modified from Danilov ''et al.'' (2013). ''Yehguia'' is most likely synonymous with ''Sinaspideretes'', and is placed outside of Adocidae here for reasons proposed in Tong, Li & Ouyang (2013). Distribution Species of this genus are present in Oligocene of Kazakhstan, Paleocene of United States, and the Cretaceous of Canada, Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Thailand, United States and Uzbekistan. References Paleocene Mammals *E.V. Syromyatnikova and I.G. Danilo [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adocus Beatus
''Adocus'' is an extinct genus of aquatic turtles belonging to the family Adocidae. Description Species of the genus ''Adocus'' had flattened and smoothly contoured shells with horny sculptured plates. The shells could reach a length of at least for North American species, some species like ''A. kohaku'' had carapace length of . The largest species, ''A. kirtlandius'' had carapace reaching . These large freshwater turtles had an omnivorous diet. They lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Paleocene in North America, but in Asia, they were also present during the Oligocene. Distribution These turtles have been found in Cretaceous to Paleogene of Canada, United States, Mongolia, China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Species * ''Adocus agilis'' * ''Adocus aksary'' * ''Adocus beatus'', type species (synonyms: ''A. punctatus'', ''A. lacer'') * ''Adocus bossi'' * ''Adocus bostobensis'' * ''Adocus dzhurtasensis'' * ''Adocus firmus'' * ''Adocus foveatus'' * ''Adocus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
