Adocus
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| Adocus Temporal range:Early Cretaceous-Oligocene,
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| Shell ofAdocus beatus,Peabody Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | †Adocidae |
| Subfamily: | †Adocinae |
| Genus: | †Adocus Cope,1868 |
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| †Adocus beatus Leidy,1865
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Adocusis an extinct genus of aquaticturtlesbelonging to the familyAdocidae.
Description
[edit]Species of the genusAdocushad flattened and smoothly contoured shells with horny sculptured plates. The shells could reach a length of at least 50 centimetres (1.6 ft) for North American species, some species likeA. kohakuhad carapace length of 60 centimetres (2.0 ft).[1]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
[edit]These turtles have been found in Cretaceous to Paleogene of Canada, United States, Mongolia, China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Species
[edit]- Adocus agilis
- Adocus aksary
- Adocus beatus,type species(synonyms:A. punctatus,A. lacer)
- Adocus bossi
- Adocus bostobensis
- Adocus dzhurtasensis
- Adocus firmus
- Adocus foveatus
- Adocus hesperius
- Adocus kirtlandius
- Adocus kizylkumensis
- Adocus kohaku
- Adocus lineolatus
- Adocus onerosus
- Adocus orientalis
- Adocus pravus
- Adocus sengokuensis
- Adocus syntheticus
References
[edit]- ^Hirayama*, Ren; Sonoda, Teppei; Uno, Hikaru; Horie, Kenji; Tsutsumi, Yukiyasu; Sasaki, Kazuhisa; Takisawa, Shunsuke Mitsuzuka and Toshio (2022-03-14)."Adocus Kohaku, A New Species of Aquatic Turtle (Testudines: Cryptodira: Adocidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Kuji, Iwate Prefecture, Northeast Japan, with Special References to the Geological Age of the Tamagawa Formation (Kuji Group) LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:61376EEE-A386-416E-98AE-FF64FE2597A2".International Journal of Paleobiology & Paleontology.4(1).
- The Paleobiology Database
- Paleocene Mammals
- Recently Collected Specimen of Adocus
- E.V. Syromyatnikova and I.G. Danilov[1]
- Yale Digital Content
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