The Adocidae are an extinct family of aquatic and omnivorous

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

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, South Korea, 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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Prehistoric turtles

Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope {{Paleo-turtle-stub