Plesiochelyidae
| Plesiochelyidae Temporal range: Late Jurassic, | |
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| Holotype carapace and plastron of Plesiochelys etalloni (previously Emy etalloni). Mount is situated upside-down. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
| Family: | †Plesiochelyidae Baur, 1888 |
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The Plesiochelyidae are an extinct family of turtles in the clade Thalassochelydia originally classified within the Cryptodira suborder, mostly belonging from the Jurassic period. An alternate study placed the clade Thalassochelydia in the Angolachelonia and outside the Testudines.