In Depth
Adocus is a genus of freshwater cryptodiran turtle that lived in both Asia and North America. Most Canadian and American fossils are confirmed as coming from Cretaceous deposits, however some fossils are determined as coming from deposits after the Cretaceous, with some as recent as the late Oligocene. Adocus is known to have inhabited freshwater where it is thought to have had an omnivorous diet.
Further Reading
- On some Cretaceous Reptilia. - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 20:233-242. - Edward Drinker Cope - 1868. - Reptilian faunas of the Torrejon, Puerco, and underlying Upper Cretaceous formations of San Juan County, New Mexico. - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 119:1-68. - C. W. Gilmore - 1919. - The skeletal morphology of the Cretaceous cryptodiran turtle, Adocus, and the relationships of the Trionychoidea. - American Museum novitates, no. 2941. - Peter Andre Meylan & Eugene S. Gaffney - 1989. - New taxa of Mesozoic turtles from Mongolia. - Fossil Turtle Research 1:119-127. - V. B. Sukhanov & P. Narmandakh - 2006. -New Material and a Revision of Turtles of the Genus Adocus (Adocidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Middle Asia and Kazakhstan. - Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS Vol. 313, No. 1, рр. 74–94. - E. V. Syromyatnikova & I. G. Danilov - 2009. - The first ‘true’ Adocus (Testudines, Adocidae) from the Paleogene of Asia. - Journal of Vertebrate paleontology - Igor Gennadievich Danilov, Elena Syromyatnikova, Pavel P. Skutschas, T. M. Kodrul & Jianhua Jin - 2013. - A new species of the genus Adocus (Adocidae, Testudines) from the Lower Cretaceous of Southwest Japan. - Paleontological Research 19(1):26-32. - T. Sonoda, R. Hirayama, Y. Okazaki & H. Ando - 2015.
