A phylogeny (Majority Rule Consensus Tree, length 153) of 24 extant and fossil species of chelid turtle based on 106 morphological characters (Tables S1 and S2). Pelomedusoid Podocnemis sextuberculata was the outgroup taxon. Note that the clades representing subgenera Elseya and Pelocomastes have high consensus (first value on nodes) and strong bootstrap support (second value on nodes). The fossil material from the Riversleigh Terrace Site and the extant Elseya sp. aff. dentata [Nicholson] fall in the Pelocomastes clade.

 
 
  Part of: Thomson SA, Friol NR, White A, Wedd D, Georges A (2023) The Australian gulf snapping turtle Elseya lavarackorum (Testudines: Chelidae) revisited—Is the late Pleistocene fossil species extant? Vertebrate Zoology 73: 237-256. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e99495