Family
Valid Extinct

Placochelyidae

Jaekel 1910

Placochelyidae is an extinct family of placodonts belonging to the superfamily Cyamodontoidea.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
6
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Marine
Placochelyidae
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Restored Placochelys placodonta skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. © FunkMonk · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
Placochelyidae
Placochelyidae
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
Placodontia Order
Cyamodontoidea Suborder
Placochelyidae Family
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇮🇱 Israel
2
🇨🇳 China
2
🇹🇷 Turkey
1
🇩🇪 Germany
1
Geological formations
Falang
1
Tarasci
1
Erfurt
1
Xiaowa
1
Temporal distribution
Carnian (237–227.3 Ma)
1
Ladinian (241.464–237 Ma)
3
Anisian (247–241.464 Ma)
2
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
O. Jaekel. 1910. Über das System der Reptilien [On the system of reptiles]. Zoologische Anzeiger 35:324-341 DOI ↗
Bibliography (5)
L.-J. Zhao, C. Li, and J. Liu, T. He. 2008. A new armored placodont from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan Province, southwestern China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 46:171-177
C. Li and O. Rieppel. 2002. A new cyamodontid placodont from Triassic of Guizhou, China. Chinese Science Bulletin 47(5):403-407 DOI ↗
L. Beltan, P. Janvier, and O. Monod, F. Westphal. 1979. A new marine fish and placodont reptile fauna of Ladinian age from southwestern Turkey. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1979(5):257-267
F. Brotzen. 1956. Stratigraphical studies on the Triassic vertebrate fossils from Wadi Raman, Israel. Arkiv foer Mineralogi och Geologi 2(9):191-217
E. Fraas. 1896. Die Schwäbischen Trias-Saurier nach dem Material der Kgl. Naturalien-Sammlung in Stuttgart zusammengestellt [Swabian Triassic dinosaurs based on the material in the Royal Natural History Collection compiled in Stuttgart]. Festgabe des Königlichen Naturalien-Cabinets In Stuttgart zur 42 Versammlung der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft in Stuttgart, August 1896. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlag-handlung (E. Koch), Stuttgart