Alternative spelling: Chelonoidea
Full reference: G. Baur. 1893. Notes on the classification of the Cryptodira. American Naturalist 27(319):672
Parent taxon: Cryptodira according to A. G. J. Rhodin et al. 2017
See also Baur 1893, Cadena et al. 2018, Cadena and Parham 2015, Carroll 1988, Danilov and Parham 2008, de la Fuente et al. 1995, Gaffney 1975, Gaffney 1975, Haidr and Acosta Hospitaleche 2017, Hay 1930, Hirayama 1998, Hirayama and Hikida 1998, Joyce et al. 2004, Karl 1996, Karl et al. 2012, Karl and Nyhuis 2012, Karl et al. 2012, Karl and Tichy 1999, Karl and Tichy 2007, Kear 2006, Kuhn 1966, Myers et al. 2018, Nicholls 1988, Parham 2005, Parham and Pyenson 2010, Parmley et al. 2006, van Dijk et al. 2014, Wieland 1909 and Zangerl 1960
Sister taxa: Adocusia, Bashuchelyidae, Carettochelyoidea, Charitonyx tajanikolaevae, Chelonemydidae, Chelydridae, Chelydroidea, Chersidae, Chitracephalus, Cryptoderinea, Dermatochelydidae, Dermochelyoidea, Durocryptodira, Eucryptodira, Galvechelone, Glyptopidae, Glyptopsidae, Indochelyidae, Kallokibotioninae, Kayentachelyidae, Kinosternia, Kinosternoidae, Meiolanidae, Nanhsiungchelyidae, Panchelonioidea, Pantestudinoidea, Pantrionychia, Platysternoidea, Polysternum, Selmacryptodira, Trionychia, Trionychidae, Trionychoidea, Tritosternidae
Subtaxa: Cheloniidae Cimochelys Dermochelyidae Dermochelyoidae Desmatochelyidae Kimurachelys Leviathanochelys Nichollsemys Pandermochelys Pliochelys Progonosaurus Protostegidae Toxochelyidae
Type: Cheloniidae
Ecology: aquatic omnivore