Testudines
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Turtles Fossil range: Late Triassic - Recent |
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"Chelonia" from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904
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Diversity | ||||||||||||||||
14 families with about 300 species | ||||||||||||||||
blue: sea turtles, black: land turtles
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Testudines is an order of reptiles. Animals in this order include the tortoises, turtles, and terrapins. They all have a shell on their back.