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)
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Other species | |
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Synonyms [1] | |
Synonyms of P. etalloni:
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Plesiochelys ("near turtle") is a genus of late Jurassic European and Asian turtle. The type species is Plesiochelys etalloni. [1]
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.