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Dermochelys (Leatherback sea turtle)
Taxonomy
Dermochelys was named by de Blainville (1816) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi R]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Dermochelyidae, Dermochelyoidea.
It was assigned to Dermochelyinae by Weems (1988); to Chelonia by Sepkoski (2002); to Cryptodira by Joyce (2007); to Testudines by Anquetin et al. (2009); to Dermochelyoidae by Bardet et al. (2013), de Lapparent de Broin et al. (2014); and to Dermochelyidae by Hay (1930), Kuhn (1966), Carroll (1988), Hirayama (1995), Frank and Ramus (1996), van Dijk et al. (2014), Rhodin et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Dermochelyinae by Weems (1988); to Chelonia by Sepkoski (2002); to Cryptodira by Joyce (2007); to Testudines by Anquetin et al. (2009); to Dermochelyoidae by Bardet et al. (2013), de Lapparent de Broin et al. (2014); and to Dermochelyidae by Hay (1930), Kuhn (1966), Carroll (1988), Hirayama (1995), Frank and Ramus (1996), van Dijk et al. (2014), Rhodin et al. (2017).
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