Biology:Plesiochelyidae
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Short description: Extinct family of turtles
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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 |
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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]
References
- ↑ Milner, A.R. (2004). "The turtles of the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, southern England". Palaeontology 47 (6): 1441–1467. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00418.x. https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/55/1/Purbeck_turtles.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Anquetin, J.; Püntener, C.; Joyce, W.G. (2017). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58 (2): 317–369. doi:10.3374/014.058.0205. https://doc.rero.ch/record/305668/files/joy_rfr.pdf.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q3392294 entry
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