Reptilia - Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Alternative spelling: Pleurosternum
Synonyms: Digerrhum Cope 1870, Mesochelys Evans and Kemp 1975
Full reference: R. Owen. 1853. Part I. A monograph on the fossil chelonian reptiles of the Wealden clays and Purbeck limestones. Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Palaeontographical Society 7(25):1-12
Parent taxon: Pleurosternidae according to R. Allain et al. 2022
See also Anquetin 2012, Anquetin et al. 2009, Brinkman et al. 2000, Carroll 1988, Cope 1870, Delair 1958, Evans and Kemp 1975, Gaffney 1979, Guerrero and Pérez-García 2020, Guerrero and Pérez-García 2021, Joyce 2007, Joyce and Anquetin 2019, Karl et al. 2012, Lydekker 1889, Lydekker 1889, Lydekker and Boulenger 1887, Lyson and Joyce 2011, Milner 2004, Milner 2011, Owen 1853, Perea et al. 2014, Pérez-García 2012, Pérez-García et al. 2015, Pérez-Garcia et al. 2021, Pérez-García et al. 2008 and Pérez-García and Ortega 2011
Sister taxa: Ballerstedtia, Desmemydinae, Desmemys, Dinochelys, Dorsetochelys, Glyptops, Riodevemys, Selenemys, Toremys, Uluops
Subtaxa: Pleurosternon bullockii Pleurosternon moncayensis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Japan (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (11)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Spain (1)
• Jurassic of France (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 18 collections including 25 occurrences
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