Plesiochelys
| Plesiochelys Temporal range: Jurassic,
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| Holotype shell of Plesiochelys. The shell is mounted upside-down | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Synonyms of P. etalloni:
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Plesiochelys 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.
References
- ^ a b c Anquetin, J. R. M.; Deschamps, S.; Claude, J. (2014). "The rediscovery and redescription of the holotype of the Late Jurassic turtle Plesiochelys etalloni". PeerJ. 2: e258. doi:10.7717/peerj.258. PMC 3932733. PMID 24688842.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Christian Püntener; Jérémy Anquetin; Jean-Paul Billon-Bruyat (2017). "The comparative osteology of Plesiochelys bigleri n. sp., a new coastal marine turtle from the Late Jurassic of Porrentruy (Switzerland)". PeerJ. 5: e3482. doi:10.7717/peerj.3482. PMC 5493033. PMID 28674653.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Anquetin, J.; Chapman, S. D. (2016). "First report of Plesiochelys etalloni and Tropidemys langii from the Late Jurassic of the UK and the palaeobiogeography of plesiochelyid turtles". Rsos. 3 (1): e1-2. Bibcode:2016RSOS....350470A. doi:10.1098/rsos.150470. PMC 4736927. PMID 26909172.
- ^ 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.
Sources
- Gaffney, Eugene S. "A taxonomic revision of the Jurassic turtles Portlandemys and Plesiochelys. American Museum Novitates; no. 2574." (1975).
- Anquetin, J., & Chapman, S. D. "First report of Plesiochelys etalloni and Tropidemys langii from the Late Jurassic of the UK and the palaeobiogeography of plesiochelyid turtles. Royal Society Open Science." (2016).
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