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Description

The Adocidae are an extinct family of aquatic and omnivorous turtles.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adocidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4819097	https://www.gbif.org/species/4819097
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	54275	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=54275

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Adocidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
-	Testudinata
order	Testudines	Batsch 1788
suborder	Cryptodira	Cope 1868
superfamily	Trionychoidea	Fitzinger 1826
family	Adocidae	Cope 1869

Scientific Name

Adocidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Adocidae	family	belongs to Chelonia	stated without evidence	Cope, 1870
Adocidae	family	belongs to Cryptodira	stated with evidence	Cope, 1871
Adocidae	family	belongs to Cryptodira	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Adocidae	family	belongs to Eucryptodira	stated without evidence	Peng et al., 2001
Adocidae	family	belongs to Cryptodira	stated without evidence	Holroyd and Hutchison, 2002
Adocidae	family	belongs to Cryptodira	stated with evidence	Hutchison and Holroyd, 2003
Adocidae	family	belongs to Adocusia	stated with evidence	Syromyatnikova and Danilov, 2009
Adocidae	family	belongs to Adocusia	stated without evidence	Danilov et al., 2013
Adocidae	family	belongs to Eucryptodira	stated without evidence	Hutchison et al., 2013
Adocidae	family	belongs to Trionychoidea	stated with evidence	Tong et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

145 - 130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

freshwater (based on Cryptodira)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Cryptodira)

Reproduction

oviparous (based on Cryptodira)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. D. Cope. 1869. On the Adocidæ. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11(81):547-553

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adocidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Adocinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		279	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Shachemydinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		4	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Adocoides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Adocus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		279	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Ferganemys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Isanemys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Shachemys ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		32	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Shineusemys ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Sineusemys genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Adocus askari Nesov & Krasovskaya, 1984	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Adocidae : *Adocus askari*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1869	Adocidae Cope p. 515
1870	Adocidae Cope
1871	Adocidae Cope p. 235
1875	Adocidae Cope p. 17
1902	Adocidae Hay p. 444
1984	Adocus askari Nesov and Krasovskaya
1985	Adocoides Narmandakh
2000	Adocoides Sukhanov p. 333

Year	Name and Author
2001	Adocidae Peng et al. p. 25
2002	Adocidae Holroyd and Hutchison p. 181
2003	Adocidae Hutchison and Holroyd
2009	Adocidae Syromyatnikova and Danilov p. 75
2013	Adocidae Danilov et al.
2013	Adocidae Hutchison et al.
2013	Adocidae Syromyatnikova and Danilov
2019	Adocidae Tong et al.

References

Cope E. D. On the Adocidæ, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11 81, 547-553

Cope E. D. [The remains of a new Cretaceous tortoise], Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11, 515

Cope E. D. On the homologies of some of the cranial bones of the Reptilia, and on the systematic arrangement of the class, Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 19, 194-247

Cope E. D. Check-list of North American Batrachia and Reptilia; with a systematic list of the higher groups, and an essay on geographical distribution. Based on the specimens contained in the U. S. National Museum, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 1, 1-109

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Sukhanov V. B. (2000) Mesozoic turtles of Middle and Central Asia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 309-367

Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54

Holroyd P. A., Hutchison J. H. (2002) Patterns of geographic variation in latest Cretaceous vertebrates: evidence from the turtle component, Geological Society of America Special Paper 361, 177-190

Hutchison J. H., Holroyd P. A. (2003) Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado, Rocky Mountain Geology 38 1, 121-142

Syromyatnikova E. V., Danilov I. G. (2009) New material and a revision of turtles of the genus Adocus (Adocidae) from the Late Cretaceous of middle Asia and Kazakhstan, Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 313 1, 74-94

Danilov I. G., Syromyatnikova E. V., et al (2013) The first "true" Adocus (Testudines, Adocidae) from the Paleogene of Asia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 5, 1071-1080

Hutchison J. H., Knell M. J., et al (2013) Turtles from the Kaiparowits Formation, Utah, At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah, 295-318

Syromyatnikova E. V., Danilov I. G. (2013) New material and phylogenetic position of Adocus bostobensis, a poorly known adocid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan, Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 317 2, 195-201

Tong H., Buffetaut E., et al (2019) Phu Din Daeng, a new Early Cretaceous vertebrate locality on the Khorat Plateau, NE Thailand, Annales de Paléontologie, 1-15 doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2019.04.004

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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