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Pleurosternidae
Extinct family of turtles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pleurosternidae is an extinct family of freshwater turtles belonging to Paracryptodira.[1] They are definitively known from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Western Europe and North America.[2]
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Pleurosternids | |
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Pleurosternon skull | |
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Pleurosternon shell | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
Superfamily: | †Baenoidea |
Family: | †Pleurosternidae Cope, 1868 |
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