Biology:Carettochelyidae

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Short description: Family of turtles

Carettochelyidae
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
Carettochelys insculpta 01.JPG
Pig-nosed turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)
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Fossil of Allaeochelys crassesculptata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Trionychia
Family: Carettochelyidae
Gill, 1889
Genera

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Carettochelyidae is a family of cryptodiran turtles belonging to the Trionychia. It contains only a single living species, the pig-nosed turtle (Carettochelys insculpta) native to New Guinea and Northern Australia. Stem-group carettochelyids are known from the Cretaceous of Asia, with the family being widely distributed across North America, Europe and Asia during the Paleogene.

Taxonomy

After Joyce, 2014[1] unless otherwise noted.

  • Stem group taxa (also known as Pan-Carettochelys Joyce, Parham and Gauthier 2004)
  • Kizylkumemys Nessov, 1976
  • Indeterminate fragments of stem-Carretochelyids are also known from the Cenomanian aged Bayan Shireh Formation, Mongolia
  • Carettochelyidae Gill, 1889
    • Anosteira Leidy, 1871
      • Anosteira manchuriana Zangerl, 1947 Liaoning, China, late Eocene
      • Anosteira maomingensis Chow and Liu, 1955 Youkanwo Formation, Guangdong, China, Late Eocene
      • Anosteira mongoliensis Gilmore, 1931 Inner Mongolia, China, Late Eocene-Oligocene
      • Anosteira ornata Leidy, 1871 Bridger Formation, Wyoming, USA, Early Eocene
      • Anosteira pulchra (Clark, 1932) Uinta Formation, Utah, USA, Middle Eocene (Lutetian)
    • An indeterminate carettochelyid is also known from the Early Eocene (Lutetian) aged Kuldana Formation, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan given the name Chorlakkichelys shahi Broin, 1987
    • Carettochelyinae Williams, 1950
      • Allaeochelys Noulet, 1867
        • Allaeochelys crassesculpta (Harrassowitz, 1922) Messel Pit, Germany, Early Eocene
        • Allaeochelys delheidi (Dollo, 1886) Brussels Formation, Belgium, Zamora, Spain, Early Eocene Headon Hill Formation, England, Late Eocene (Priabonian)
        • Allaeochelys libyca Havlik et al, 2014, Al Wahat District, Libya, middle Miocene (Langhian)
        • Allaeochelys lingnanica (Young and Chow, 1962) Shaoguan, Guangdong, China early Paleogene (possibly Paleocene)
        • Allaeochelys magnifica (=Burmemys magnifica Hutchison et al., 2004) Pandaung Formation, Myanmar, Late Eocene (Bartonian)
        • Allaeochelys parayrei Noulet, 1867 Tarn, Toulouse, France, Late Eocene (Bartonian)
        • Allaeochelys liliae Carbot-Chanona et al. 2020[2] Mazantic Shale, Chiapas, Mexico, Early Miocene (Aquitanian)
      • Carettochelys Ramsay, 1886 Northern Australia, New Guinea, Recent
      • Indeterminate carettochelyids are also known from the uppermost Miocene to lowermost Pliocene of Victoria, Australia,[3] As well as the Upper Miocene of New Guinea.[4]

References

  1. Joyce, Walter G. (April 2014). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Carettochelys" (in en). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 55 (1): 3–33. doi:10.3374/014.055.0102. ISSN 0079-032X. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3374/014.055.0102. 
  2. Carbot-Chanona, Gerardo; Rivera-Velázquez, Gustavo; Jiménez-Hidalgo, Eduardo; Reynoso, Víctor Hugo (December 2020). "The first Pan-Carettochelys turtle in the Neogene of the American continent and its paleobiogeographical relevance" (in en). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 104: 102925. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102925. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0895981120304685. 
  3. Rule, James P.; Kool, Lesley; Parker, William M.G.; Fitzgerald, Erich M.G. (2021-12-07). Mannion, Philip. ed. "Turtles all the way down: Neogene pig‐nosed turtle fossil from southern Australia reveals cryptic freshwater turtle invasions and extinctions" (in en). Papers in Palaeontology 8: spp2.1414. doi:10.1002/spp2.1414. ISSN 2056-2799. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1414. 
  4. Glaessner, Martin F. (1942-07-08). "The occurrence of the New Guinea Turtle (Carettochelys) in the Miocene of Papua" (in en). Records of the Australian Museum 21 (2): 106–109. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.21.1942.262. ISSN 0067-1975. https://journals.australian.museum/glaessner-1942-rec-aust-mus-212-106109/journals.australian.museum/glaessner-1942-rec-aust-mus-212-106109/. 

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