Definition of Chelydridae

1. Noun. Snapping turtles.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Chelydridae

Chelone glabra
Chelonethida
Chelonia mydas
Chelonidae
Cheloniidae
Chelosauria lovelli
Chelsea
Chelsea pensioner
Chelsea pensioners
Chelsea tractor
Chelsea tractors
Chelyabinsk
Chelydra
Chelydra serpentina
Chelydridae
Chemakuan
Chemakum
Chemical Mace
Chemical Weapons Convention
Chemnitz
Chemulpo
Chen
Chen N. Yang
Chen caerulescens
Cheney syndrome
Chengdu
Chengtu
Chenin blanc
Chennai

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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