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Definition of Chelydridae
1. Noun. Snapping turtles.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Family
Group relationships: Chelonia, Order Chelonia, Order Testudinata, Order Testudines, Testudinata, Testudines
Member holonyms: Snapping Turtle, Chelydra, Genus Chelydra, Genus Macroclemys, Macroclemys
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chelydridae
Literary usage of Chelydridae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1905)
"The characters which it possesses in common with the Chelydridae are those which
it and the latter have inherited from common ancestors, of the Mesozoic or ..."
2. Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group, Paleocene) of by Albert E. Sanders (1998)
"More notable, but possibly a taphonomic artifact of the coastal and marine setting
of these deposits, is the lack of Chelydridae, ..."
3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"In the two families mentioned we have about the same arrangement as in the
Chelydridae. ... reaches the extension seen in the Chelydridae and ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"The Chelydridae, now restricted to North and Central America, occurred formerly
also in Europe. The Pleurodira, in Mesozoic times plentiful in Europe, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"N. America: Chelydridae and Trionychidae, but only E. of the Rockies. Africa:
Trionychidae and Pelomedusidae. ..."
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