Plesiochelys ("near turtle") is a genus of late Jurassic European and Asian turtle. The type species is Plesiochelys etalloni.[1]
| Plesiochelys Temporal range: Jurassic, | |
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| Holotype shell of Plesiochelys. The shell is mounted upside-down | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
| Family: | †Plesiochelyidae |
| Genus: | †Plesiochelys Rütimeyer, 1873 |
| Type species | |
| †Plesiochelys etalloni (Pictet & Humbert, 1857) | |
| Other species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Synonyms of P. etalloni:
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Fossil records have discovered Plesiochelys bigleri and Plesiochelys etalloni from the Kimmeridge Clay of England and outside the Swiss and French Jura Mountains.[3]
A recent study[4] placed Plesiochelys as an Angolachelonia and outside Testudines.
References
Sources
- Gaffney, Eugene S. "A taxonomic revision of the Jurassic turtles Portlandemys and Plesiochelys. American Museum Novitates; no. 2574." (1975).