Turtle classification

Turtles have been classified in different ways by different authors. While they were previously considered anapsids, they are now considered more derived. Recent analyses of molecular evidence have strongly suggested that they belong in the clade Archosauromorpha (also known as Archelosauria). Below are many of the possible classifications of Testudines and Testudinata:

Thomson and Shaffer, 2010

Below is a cladogram of living testudines found by Thomson and Shaffer in 2010:

Testudines  
Pleurodira

Sterli 2010

Below is a cladogram found by Sterli in 2010 in a phylogenetic analysis of Pleurodira:

Testudinata

†Proganochelys quenstedti

Rhaptochelydia
†Australochelyidae
Testudines
Testudinoidea

Joyce, 2007

Below is a cladogram found by Joyce in 2007 in his publication on turtle phylogeny:

Testudinata

Proganochelys quenstedti

Palaeochersis talampayensis

Australochelys africanus

Proterochersis robusta

Kayentachelys aprix

Cryptodira

See also

Wikipedia category tree of Testudines taxonomy

Testudines
no subcategories

References

  1. ↑ Zardoya, Rafael; Meyer, Axel (2001-05-01). "The evolutionary position of turtles revised". Naturwissenschaften. 88 (5): 193–200. Bibcode:2001NW.....88..193Z. doi:10.1007/s001140100228. ISSN 0028-1042. PMID 11482432. S2CID 7836810.
  2. ↑ Crawford, Nicholas G.; Parham, James F.; Sellas, Anna B.; Faircloth, Brant C.; Glenn, Travis C.; Papenfuss, Theodore J.; Henderson, James B.; Hansen, Madison H.; Simison, W. Brian (2015-02-01). "A phylogenomic analysis of turtles". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 250–257. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.021. PMID 25450099.
  3. ↑ Thomson, R.C.; Shaffer, H.B. (2010). "Sparse Supermatrices for Phylogenetic Inference: Taxonomy, Alignment, Rogue Taxa, and the Phylogeny of Living Turtles" (PDF). Systematic Biology. 59 (1): 42–58. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp075. PMID 20525619. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-21.
  4. ↑ Sterli, J. (2010). "Phylogenetic relationships among extinct and extant turtles: the position of Pleurodira and the effects of the fossils on rooting crown-group turtles". Contributions to Zoology. 79 (3): 93–106. doi:10.1163/18759866-07903002. hdl:11336/84233.
  5. ↑ Joyce, W.G. (2007). "Phylogenetic Relationships of Mesozoic Turtles" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 48 (1): 62. doi:10.3374/0079-032X(2007)48[3:PROMT]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85998318. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-06.