Testudinata

Testudinata; Temporal range: Late Triassic – Holocene, Possible Early and Middle Triassic records in the form of fossil tracks
	Skeleton of Proganochelys quenstedti, American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Pantestudines
Clade:	Testudinata; Klein, 1760
Subgroups
	†Chinlechelys; †Proterochersis?; †Proganochelys; Rhaptochelydia Gaffney & Kitching, 1994 †Proterochersis?; †Australochelyidae †Australochelys; †Palaeochersis; †Waluchelys; ; Mesochelydia; ;

Testudinata is the group of all tetrapods with a true turtle shell. It includes both modern turtles (Testudines) and many of their extinct, shelled relatives (stem-turtles), though excluding Odontochelys and Eorhynchochelys, which are placed in the more inclusive Pantestudines.

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