Leatherback Turtles

Dermochelyidae is a family of turtles which has seven extinct genera and one extant genus, including the largest living sea turtles.

Classification of known genera

The following list of dermochelyid species was published by Hirayama and Tong in 2003, unless otherwise noted.^[2]

• †Arabemys crassiscutata
• †Eosphargis breineri
• †Mesodermochelys undulatus
• Subfamily Dermochelyinae^[3]
  • †Cosmochelys
  • Dermochelys coriacea – leatherback sea turtle^[3]
  • †Psephophorus

Phylogeny

Evers et al. (2019):^[4]

Panchelonioidea

†Toxochelys

†Protostegidae

Chelonioidea

†Corsochelys

Dermochelyidae

†Nichollsemys

†Allopleuron

Cheloniidae

†Argillochelys

†Procolpochelys

†Eochelone

†Puppigerus

†Ctenochelys

†Peritresius

†Cabindachelys

References