Bothremydidae
| Bothremydidae Temporal range: 99.6–40.4 Ma |
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| Gafsachelys spp. skull | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
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†Bothremydidae Baur, 1891 |
Bothremydidae is an extinct family of side-necked turtles. They belong to suborder Pleurodira and the order Testudines. Like their modern relatives, bothremydidids often inhabited freshwater, but several species were instead marine; they are unrelated to modern sea turtles. They were actively mobile omnivores. They became extinct in the Late Eocene.
The family is split into two subfamilies and a number of tribes.
Bothremydidae
Below is a cladogram by Gaffney et al. in 2006:
Foxemys (=Polysternon)
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