Placochelys
Placochelys was a marine reptile that looked a lot like a sea turtle, but it wasn't a turtle. It swam in warm seas during the Triassic Period, using its paddle-like limbs to glide through the water.1
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Placochelys had a flat, turtle-like shell made of knobbly plates, but it was not a turtle. It was a type of reptile called a placodont.1
Its skull was compact and triangular, with a beak and powerful jaw muscles for crushing food.1
Unlike modern sea turtles, Placochelys still had visible toes on its paddle-shaped limbs, and it had a short tail.1
Placochelys lived about 221 to 205 million years ago, during the Late Triassic Period.1
It had only two pairs of teeth on the roof of its mouth: a large pair at the back and a small pair near the front.1

Nsɛm a wɔbisa bebree fa Placochelys ho
?What did Placochelys eat?
Shellfish and other hard-shelled prey. It used its broad, crushing teeth on the roof of its mouth to break them open.13
?Could Placochelys walk on land?
It may have occasionally ventured onto land, because its paddle-shaped limbs still had visible toes, unlike modern sea turtles.3
?When did Placochelys go extinct?
It lived during the Late Triassic Period, from about 221 to 205 million years ago, and died out by the end of the Triassic.1
Atosɛm sɛefoɔ
Atosɛm: Placochelys was a sea turtle.
Nokorɛ: Placochelys looked like a sea turtle, but it was a different kind of marine reptile called a placodont. It was not closely related to modern turtles.1
Ma dino ho animdefoɔ
- Nyansahu din
- Placochelys
- Obi a ɔtoo din
- Jaekel 19024
- Kuo
- Ɛpo mu mmoa a wɔwea
- Abusua / kuo kɛseɛ
- Placochelyida4
- Nkyekyɛmu
- Placodontia > Sauropterygia4
- Abotan no mfeɛ
- mfeɛ ɔpepem 237 kɔsi 72 (Carnian / Campanian)4
- Abotan nhyehyɛeɛ
- Gorno, Hauptdolomit, Veszprém Marl4
- Aman
- Itali, Ɔstria, Hangari4
- Fɔsil nkyerɛwee
- 5 wɔ The Paleobiology Database mu4
- Nhunumu
- Placochelys was named by German paleontologist Otto Jaekel in 1902. The first fossils were found in Hungary.12
- Wɔda so gye ho akyinnye
- Scientists are still debating how Placochelys is related to other placodonts. Some think it might be the same as another genus called Psephoderma.2
Baabi a nsɛm no firi
- Placochelys (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Placochelys (prehistoric-wildlife.com)
- Placochelys in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mfeɛ, mmeaeɛ, abotan nhyehyɛeɛ, nkyekyɛmu.
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