Adocus is an extinct genus of aquatic turtles belonging to the family Adocidae.
Description Species of the genus Adocus had flattened and smoothly contoured shells with horny sculptured plates. The shells could reach a length of at least for North American species, some species like A. kohaku had carapace length of . The largest species, A. kirtlandius had carapace reaching . These large freshwater turtles had an omnivorous diet. They lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Paleocene in North America, but in Asia, they were also present during the Oligocene.
Distribution These turtles have been found in Cretaceous to Paleogene of Canada, United States, Mongolia, China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Species Adocus agilis Adocus aksary Adocus beatus, type species (synonyms: A. punctatus, A. lacer) Adocus bossi Adocus bostobensis Adocus dzhurtasensis Adocus firmus Adocus foveatus Adocus hesperius Adocus kirtlandius Adocus kizylkumensis
Adocus lineolatus Adocus onerosus Adocus orientalis Adocus pravus
Adocus syntheticus
References
The Paleobiology Database Paleocene Mammals Recently Collected Specimen of Adocus E.V. Syromyatnikova and I.G. Danilov Yale Digital Content