Carettochelyidae
Carettochelyidae
Family of turtles
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, Asia and Africa during much of the Cenozoic.
Quick Facts Scientific classification, Genera ...
| Carettochelyidae | |
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| Pig-nosed turtle (Carettochelys insculpta) | |
| Fossil of Allaeochelys crassesculptata | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Trionychia |
| Family: | Carettochelyidae Gill, 1889 |
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After Joyce, 2014[1] unless otherwise noted.
- Stem group taxa (also known as Pan-Carettochelys Joyce, Parham and Gauthier 2004)
- Kizylkumemys Nessov, 1976
- Kizylkumemys khoratensis Tong et al., 2005 Khok Kruat Formation, Thailand, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
- Kizylkumemys schultzi Nessov, 1976 Khodzhakul Formation, Uzbekistan, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
- 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 Borneo, Neogene[3] Northern Australia, New Guinea, Recent
- Indeterminate carettochelyids are also known from the uppermost Miocene to lowermost Pliocene of Victoria, Australia,[4] As well as the Upper Miocene of New Guinea.[5]
- Allaeochelys Noulet, 1867
- Anosteira Leidy, 1871
- Joyce, Walter G. (April 2014). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Carettochelys". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 55 (1): 3–33. doi:10.3374/014.055.0102. ISSN 0079-032X. S2CID 59382889.
- 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". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 104: 102925. Bibcode:2020JSAES.10402925C. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102925. S2CID 224976641.
- White, Arthur W.; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne J.; Godthelp, Henk; Gillespie, Anna K. (2023-10-02). "A new broad-snouted fossil carettochelyid turtle from a previously unknown Caenozoic deposit in Sarawak, Malaysia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 47 (4): 614–623. Bibcode:2023Alch...47..614W. doi:10.1080/03115518.2023.2243503. ISSN 0311-5518.
- 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". Papers in Palaeontology. 8: spp2.1414. doi:10.1002/spp2.1414. ISSN 2056-2799. S2CID 245107305.
- Glaessner, Martin F. (1942-07-08). "The occurrence of the New Guinea Turtle (Carettochelys) in the Miocene of Papua". Records of the Australian Museum. 21 (2): 106–109. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.21.1942.262. ISSN 0067-1975.