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 | |
Pantestudines or Pan-Testudines is the proposed 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.