Pleurosternids Temporal range:
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Pleurosternon skull | |
Pleurosternon shell | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | † Paracryptodira |
Superfamily: | † Baenoidea |
Family: | †
Pleurosternidae Cope, 1868 |
Pleurosternidae is an extinct family of freshwater turtles belonging to Paracryptodira. [1] They are definitively known from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous ( Albian) of Western Europe and North America. [2]
Uluops from the Late Jurassic of North America may also belong to Pleurosternidae. [2]
The high morphological diversity of skulls of the group suggests high ecological plasticity. Glyptops and Pleurosternon exhibit adaptions likely for suction feeding, while Dorsteochelys was likely a dietary generalist. [2]
Pleurosternids Temporal range:
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Pleurosternon skull | |
Pleurosternon shell | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | † Paracryptodira |
Superfamily: | † Baenoidea |
Family: | †
Pleurosternidae Cope, 1868 |
Pleurosternidae is an extinct family of freshwater turtles belonging to Paracryptodira. [1] They are definitively known from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous ( Albian) of Western Europe and North America. [2]
Uluops from the Late Jurassic of North America may also belong to Pleurosternidae. [2]
The high morphological diversity of skulls of the group suggests high ecological plasticity. Glyptops and Pleurosternon exhibit adaptions likely for suction feeding, while Dorsteochelys was likely a dietary generalist. [2]