The Cryptodira route represents the sampled crown-side turtle clade in Joyce’s morphology matrix; relationships within Cryptodira are partly unresolved, and the analysis does not supply an exact crown origin or global first appearance. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.
Represented range0–Present Ma
Content packageturtles-lepidosaurs
PBDBtxn:37622
Evidence boundary
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Claim ledger
topology · medium
The Cryptodira route represents the sampled crown-side turtle clade in Joyce’s morphology matrix; relationships within Cryptodira are partly unresolved, and the analysis does not supply an exact crown origin or global first appearance.
claim:taxon:cryptodirafossil-range · low
Joyce’s matrix defines and samples Cryptodira but does not validate 155.6 Ma as a crown-cryptodire minimum; the former borrowed display is withheld pending a node-specific calibration.
claim:taxon:cryptodira:range-boundary
Known limits
A missing branch or fossil occurrence does not imply biological absence. Internal nodes are not calibrated divergence estimates.