Pleurosternidae

Pleurosternids
Temporal range:
Pleurosternon skull
Pleurosternon shell
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pantestudines
Clade: Testudinata
Clade: Paracryptodira
Superfamily: Baenoidea
Family: Pleurosternidae
Cope, 1868

Pleurosternidae is an extinct family of freshwater turtles belonging to Paracryptodira. They are definitively known from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Western Europe and North America.