Pantestudines

Pantestudines; Temporal range: Middle Triassic - Holocene, Possible mid-Permian record
	Fossil specimen of Odontochelys semitestacea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Archelosauria
Clade:	Pantestudines; Joyce & Parham & Gauthier, 2004
Subgroups
	†Parareptilia?; †Sauropterygia?; †Saurosphargidae?; †Eunotosaurus?; †Acerosodontosaurus?; †Claudiosaurus?; †Pappochelys?; †Eorhynchochelys; †Odontochelys; Testudinata;

Pantestudines or Pan-Testudines is the group of all reptiles more closely related to turtles than to any other living animal. It includes both modern turtles (crown group turtles, also known as Testudines) and all of their extinct relatives (also known as stem-turtles). Pantestudines with a complete shell are placed in the clade Testudinata.

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