Plastomenus

Plastomenus
Temporal range:
Fossil in the Field Museum of Natural History.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Trionychidae
Subfamily: †Plastomeninae
Genus: †Plastomenus
Cope, 1873
Type species
†Trionyx thomasii
Cope, 1872
Species
  • †P. joycei
    Lyson, Petermann & Miller, 2021
  • †P. thomasii
    (Cope, 1872)
  • †P. vegetus
    (Gilmore, 1919)

Plastomenus is an extinct genus of turtle that inhabited western North America during the early Paleogene period.

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