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Plesiochelys
Genus of turtle / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plesiochelys ("near turtle") is a genus of late Jurassic European and Asian turtle. The type species is Plesiochelys etalloni.[1]
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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.