The PEDIGREE of
Suborder Cryptodira

     (the living Cryptodira are all in Infraorder Eucryptodira)

 "Child(ren)":       Superfamily Chelonioidea (Sea Turtles)   ;   Testudinoidea (tortoises : box turtles : Asian river turtles : etc.)   ;   Trionychoidea (river turtles : mud turtles : etc.)   ;   Chelydridae (snapping turtles)   ;   several extinct families   ;   Infraorder Paracryptodira (extinct)
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/-- Infraphylum Gnathostomata   +====> [ 80]
/-- Microphylum Teleostomi (Bony fishes & Spiny sharks)
/-- Superclass Osteichthyes (Bony fishes)
/-- Class Sarcopterygii (Lobe-finned Fishes)
/-- Clade of Rhipidistia
/-- Subclass Tetrapodamorpha
/-- Infraphylum Tetrapoda
/-- Clade Reptiliomorpha
/-- Microphylum Amniota (Mammals, Reptiles, etc.)
/-- Class Sauropsida (Reptiles)
/-- Clade Romeriida
/-- Subclass Diapsida
/-- Infraclass Archosauromorpha
/   / or: prob. not Class Sauropsida
/-- Subclass Anapsida
/-- Order Testudines (Turtles)  (215 Million BC)
/  
- Suborder Cryptodira
 

 
  ``Grandchild:''       Genus Dermochelys (Leatherback Turtle)
 

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