†unranked clade Dermochelyini Gentry et al. 2025 (leatherback)

Reptilia - Testudines - Dermochelyidae

Registration number: 1092. Definition: The largest clade containing Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761), but not Ueloca colemanorum n. gen. n. sp. Composition: In addition to D. coriacea, Dermochelyini also includes Cosmochelys dolloi, Egyptemys eocaenus, and Psephophorus polygonus.

Full reference: A. D. Gentry, M. E. Burns, J. A. Ebersole, K. A. Gregson, E. C. Martinez and J. E. Parham. 2025. A new leatherback marine turtle from the lower Oligocene of North America and a phylogenetic nomenclature for Dermochelyidae. Palaeodiversity 18(1):127-149

Parent taxon: Dermochelyinae according to A. D. Gentry et al. 2025

Sister taxon: Uelocini

Subtaxa: Cosmochelys Psephophorus

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Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of France (1 collection), United States (2: California, North Carolina)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Denmark (1), Italy (2), the Netherlands (1), Slovakia (1), United States (12: California, Maryland, Virginia)

• Oligocene of Germany (2), United States (2: South Carolina)

• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Egypt (1), Nigeria (1), Ukraine (1)

Total: 33 collections each including a single occurrence

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