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 ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | † Thalassochelydia |
Family: | † Plesiochelyidae Baur, 1888 |
Genera [1] | |
The Plesiochelyidae are an extinct family of turtles in the clade Thalassochelydia originally classified within the Cryptodira suborder, mostly belonging from the Jurassic period. [1] An alternate study placed the clade Thalassochelydia in the Angolachelonia and outside the Testudines. [3]
Phosphatic δ18O values indicate that plesiochelyids were inhabitants of coastal marine environments. [4]