Adocus
Extinct genus of turtles

01Description
Species of the genus Adocus had flattened and smoothly contoured shells with horny sculptured plates. The shells could reach a length of at least 50 centimetres (1.6 ft) for North American species, some species like A. kohaku had carapace length of 60 centimetres (2.0 ft). The largest species, A. kirtlandius had carapace reaching 113 centimetres (3.71 ft). 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.

02Distribution
These turtles have been found in Cretaceous to Paleogene of Canada, United States, Mongolia, China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
03Species
- 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 kohaku
- Adocus lineolatus
- Adocus onerosus
- Adocus orientalis
- Adocus pravus
- Adocus sengokuensis
- Adocus syntheticus
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- Adocidae - Adocus punctatus.jpg by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Glyptops and Adocus.jpg by Marsh, Public domain
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