| Fossil range | Jurassic, |
|---|---|
| Taxon | Plesiochelys |
| Authority | Rütimeyer, 1873 |
| Type species | Plesiochelys etalloni |
| Type species authority | (Pictet & Humbert, 1857) |
| Subdivision ranks | Other species |
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| Synonyms | Synonyms of P. etalloni:
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Plesiochelys ("near turtle") is a genus of late Jurassic European and Asian turtle. The type species is Plesiochelys etalloni.[2]
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
- ^ 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. doi:10.7717/peerj.3482. PMC 5493033. PMID 28674653
- ^ 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. doi:10.7717/peerj.258. PMC 3932733. PMID 24688842
- ^ 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". Royal Society Open Science. 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).