Reptilia - Testudines - Dermochelyidae
Alternative spellings: Dermochelidae, Dermochelydidae
Synonyms: Psephophoridae Goette 1899, Sphargidae Gray 1825, Sphargididae Gray 1825
Parent taxon: Chelonioidea according to A. G. J. Rhodin et al. 2017
See also Andrews 1906, Baur 1893, Bona et al. 2024, Carroll 1988, Cope 1871, Cope 1875, de la Fuente et al. 1995, Dodd and Morgan 1992, Fallon and Boessenecker 2020, Frank and Ramus 1996, Gadow 1898, Gaffney 1975, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hirayama 1995, Hirayama 1998, Hirayama and Chitoku 1996, Hirayama and Hikida 1998, Jaekel 1911, Joyce et al. 2004, Karl 2007, Karl and Tichy 2007, Köhler 1995, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1966, Leidy 1873, Lydekker 1889, Otero et al. 2012, Parmley et al. 2006, Perrier 1928, Thurmond and Jones 1981, van Dijk et al. 2014, Weems 1988 and Zittel 1890
Sister taxa: Cheloniidae, Cimochelys, Dermochelyoidae, Desmatochelyidae, Kimurachelys, Leviathanochelys, Nichollsemys, Pandermochelys, Pliochelys, Progonosaurus, Protostegidae, Toxochelyidae
Subtaxa: Chelonia californiensis Dermochelyinae Dermochelys Egyptemys Eosphargis Maorichelys Mesodermochelys Natemys Psephophorus Turgaiscapha
Type: Dermochelys
Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Oman (2)
• Pliocene of France (1), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Argentina (3), Denmark (1), Germany (1), Italy (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), Peru (1), Slovakia (1), United States (16: California, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia)
• Oligocene of Belgium (2), Germany (3), Peru (1), United States (6: South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (4), Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (3), Egypt (2), Kazakhstan (2), New Zealand (4), Nigeria (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (6: Georgia, Maryland , South Carolina, Virginia), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of United States (2: New Jersey, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Chile (1), Japan (12), Kazakhstan (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 96 collections including 100 occurrences