Araripemydidae is a family of freshwater aquatic turtles belonging to the order Pleurodira (side-necked turtles), known from the Early Cretaceous of South America and Africa. The family contains two recognised monotypic genera, Araripemys and Taquetochelys, from the Santana Group of Brazil and the Elrhaz Formation of Niger, respectively,[1] which date to the Aptian-Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous.[2] They are consider to be the most basal lineage within the Pelomedusoides.[3] They are thought to have been specialised suction feeders.[4] Laganemys was named in 2013 but was later determined to be synonymous with Taquetochelys.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Hyperfamily: | Pelomedusoides |
| Family: | †Araripemydidae Price, 1973 |
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References
edit- ^ Gaffney, Eugene S.; Tong, Haiyan; Meylan, Peter A. (2006). "Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 300: 1–698. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)300[1:EOTSTT]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5824. S2CID 85790134.
- ^ Sereno, Paul C.; ElShafie, Sara J. (2013). "A New Long-Necked Turtle, Laganemys tenerensis (Pleurodira: Araripemydidae), from the Elrhaz Formation (Aptian–Albian) of Niger". In Brinkman, D.B.; et al. (eds.). Morphology and Evolution of Turtles. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. pp. 215–250. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4309-0_14. ISBN 978-94-007-4308-3.
- ^ a b Pérez-García, Adán (2019-01-01). "Identification of the Lower Cretaceous pleurodiran turtle Taquetochelys decorata as the only African araripemydid species". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 18 (1): 24–32. Bibcode:2019CRPal..18...24P. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2018.04.004. ISSN 1631-0683.
- ^ Joyce, Walter G.; Rollot, Yann; Evers, Serjoscha W.; Lyson, Tyler R.; Rahantarisoa, Lydia J.; Krause, David W. (2021). "A new pelomedusoid turtle, Sahonachelys mailakavava, from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar provides evidence for convergent evolution of specialized suction feeding among pleurodires". Royal Society Open Science. 8 (5): 210098. Bibcode:2021RSOS....810098J. doi:10.1098/rsos.210098. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 8097199. PMID 34035950.
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