Plesiochelys
Plesiochelys is a genus of late Jurassic European and Asian turtle. The type species is Plesiochelys etalloni.[1]
Plesiochelys | |
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Holotype shell of Plesiochelys. The shell is mounted upside-down | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | †Plesiochelyidae |
Genus: | †Plesiochelys Rütimeyer, 1873 |
Type species | |
†Plesiochelys etalloni (Pictet & Humbert, 1857) | |
Other species | |
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Synonyms[1] | |
Synonyms of P. etalloni:
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A recent study[3] placed Plesiochelys as an Angolachelonia and outside Testudines.
References
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
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