Plesiochelys

Plesiochelys ("near turtle") is a genus of late Jurassic European and Asian turtle. The type species is Plesiochelys etalloni.^[1]

Plesiochelys Temporal range: Jurassic, Kimmeridgian–Tithonian[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Holotype shell of Plesiochelys. The shell is mounted upside-down
Scientific classification
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)
Other species
†Plesiochelys bigleri Püntener, Anquetin & Billon-Bruyat, 2017[2]
Synonyms[1]
Synonyms of P. etalloni: Emys etalloni Pictet & Humbert, 1857 Plesiochelys solodurensis Rütimeyer, 1873 Plesiochelys sanctaeverenae Rütimeyer, 1873 Plesiochelys langii Rütimeyer, 1873

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.