Turtle

Turtles
Temporal range:
Late JurassicPresent,[1] 157–0 Ma
Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Testudinata
Order: Testudines
Batsch, 1788 [2]
Subgroups[1]

Cryptodira
Pleurodira
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Diversity
14 extant families wi ca. 300 species
blue: sea turtles, black: land turtles

Turtles are reptiles o the order Testudines (or Chelonii[3]) chairacterised bi a special banir or cartilaginous shell developed frae thair ribs an actin as a shield.[4]

References

  1. a b Joyce 2007
  2. "Testudines". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. Dubois & Bour 2010
  4. Hutchinson 1996

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