The Adocidae are an extinct family of aquatic and omnivorous

turtle Turtles are an order of reptiles known as Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked t ...

s. They are freshwater cryptodiran turtles and are mainly known from Cretaceous and Paleogene Asia and North America. Glyptops and Adocus

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, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Thailand, United States and Uzbekistan.

References

Paleocene MammalsRecently Collected Specimen of Adocus
*E.V. Syromyatnikova and I.G. Danilo
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