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Cheloniidae
Taxonomy
Cheloniidae was named by Bonaparte (1832). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Matzke (2007) and Karl et al. (2012).
It was corrected as Chelonidae by Lydekker (1889).
It was assigned to Cryptodira by Lydekker (1889); to Cryptodira by Case (1904); to Cryptodira by Andrews (1906) and Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Testudines by Parris et al. (2000); to Chelonoidea by Zangerl (1960) and Matzke (2007); and to Chelonioidea by Baur (1893), Weems (1988), Carroll (1988), Hirayama (1998), Joyce et al. (2004), Parmley et al. (2006) and Karl et al. (2012).
It was corrected as Chelonidae by Lydekker (1889).
It was assigned to Cryptodira by Lydekker (1889); to Cryptodira by Case (1904); to Cryptodira by Andrews (1906) and Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Testudines by Parris et al. (2000); to Chelonoidea by Zangerl (1960) and Matzke (2007); and to Chelonioidea by Baur (1893), Weems (1988), Carroll (1988), Hirayama (1998), Joyce et al. (2004), Parmley et al. (2006) and Karl et al. (2012).
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1832 | Cheloniidae Bonaparte |
| 1889 | Chelonidae Lydekker pp. 25-27 |
| 1893 | Cheloniidae Baur p. 673 |
| 1904 | Chelonidae Case p. 63 |
| 1906 | Chelonidae Andrews p. 287 |
| 1960 | Cheloniidae Zangerl p. 285 |
| 1981 | Cheloniidae Thurmond and Jones p. 136 |
| 1988 | Cheloniidae Carroll |
| 1988 | Cheloniidae Weems p. 141 figs. Table 2 |
| 1998 | Cheloniidae Hirayama |
| 2000 | Cheloniidae Parris et al. p. 230 |
| 2004 | Cheloniidae Joyce et al. |
| 2006 | Cheloniidae Parmley et al. p. 344 |
| 2007 | Cheloniidae Matzke |
| 2012 | Cheloniidae Karl et al. |
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