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12 Cards in this Set
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Tortoises
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Testitudinidae
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Wood
Map Box Midland painted Spotted Blanding's |
Emydidae
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Softshell Turtles
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Trionychidae
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Musk turtles
Plastron reduced (cruciform) |
Kinosiernidae
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Sea turtles
Flippers |
Cheloniidae
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Snapping Turtles
Tail as long as shell |
Chelydridae
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Matamata Turtle
South American Snake-Necked Turtle |
Chelidae
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Yellow Spotted River Turtle
Lack cervical scute Olive color |
Pelomedusidae
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List characteristics of cryptodire skeleton
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Trochlear process formed by anterior surface of otic capsule
Bony connection attaches shell to pelvic girdle |
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List characteristics of pleurodire skeleton
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Fusion of pelvic girdle to carapace & plastron
Trochlear process formed by lateral process of pterygoid |
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Skeletal characteristics
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Keratin beak
Loss of sternum Two sacral vertebrae Five claws on fore/hindlimbs in turtles Four claws on hindlimbs in tortoises Limb girdles inside ribs Lateral ribs Pectoral girdle merged with carapace |
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Familes of Pleurodira
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Chelidae
Pelomedusidae Podocnemidae |
