Pleurosternon

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Pleurosternon
Temporal range: Tithonian–Berriasian
Pleurosternon (ovatum) bullockii fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pantestudines
Clade: Testudinata
Clade: †Paracryptodira
Family: †Pleurosternidae
Genus: †Pleurosternon
Owen, 1853
Species
  • †P. bullockii (Owen, 1842) (type)
  • †P. moncayensis Pérez-Garcia, 2021

Pleurosternon is an extinct genus of freshwater pleurosternid turtle from the latest Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous of Europe.[1] Its type species, P. bullockii was described by the paleontologist Richard Owen (noted for coining the word Dinosauria) in 1853. Since then, and throughout the late 19th century, many fossil turtles were incorrectly assigned to this genus, though only two are currently considered valid.

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