Cheloniidae

Cheloniid sea turtles Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Holocene, 72–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
A green sea turtle, a species of the family Cheloniidae, swimming over coral reefs in Kona, Hawaii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Chelonioidea
Family:	Cheloniidae Oppel, 1811[1]
Type genus
Chelonia Brongniart, 1800
Genera
See text.
Synonyms[1]
Chelonii - Oppel, 1811 Cheloniadae - Gray, 1825 Carettidae - Gray, 1825 Mydae - Ritgen, 1828 Chelonidae - Bonaparte, 1832 Cheloniidae - Cope, 1868

Cheloniidae is a family of typically large marine turtles that are characterised by their common traits such as, having a flat streamlined wide and rounded shell and almost paddle-like flippers for their forelimbs. They are the only sea turtles to have stronger front limbs than back limbs.^[2] The six species that make up this family are: the green sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, olive ridley sea turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, flatback sea turtle and the Kemp's ridley sea turtle.^[3]