The Plesiochelyidae are an extinct family of turtles in the clade Thalassochelydia originally classified within the Cryptodira suborder, mostly belonging from the Jurassic period.[2] An alternate study placed the clade Thalassochelydia in the Angolachelonia and outside the Testudines.[3]
| Plesiochelyidae Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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| Holotype carapace and plastron of Plesiochelys etalloni (previously Emy etalloni). Mount is situated upside-down. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
| Family: | †Plesiochelyidae Baur, 1888 |
| Genera[2] | |
References
edit- ^ Milner, A.R. (2004). "The turtles of the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, southern England" (PDF). Palaeontology. 47 (6): 1441–1467. Bibcode:2004Palgy..47.1441M. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00418.x.
- ^ a b Anquetin, J.; Püntener, C.; Joyce, W.G. (2017). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 58 (2): 317–369. doi:10.3374/014.058.0205. S2CID 31091127.
- ^ Evers, S. W., & Benson, R. B. (2019). A new phylogenetic hypothesis of turtles with implications for the timing and number of evolutionary transitions to marine lifestyles in the group. Palaeontology, 62(1), 93-134.
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