Named By: | Otto Jaekel in 1902 |
Time Period: | Mid to Late Triassic |
Location: | Europe |
Size: | 90 centimetres long |
Diet: | Shellfish |
Fossil(s): | Fairly well preserved specimen |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Sauropterygia | Placodontia | |
Placochelys ('flat-plate turtle") is an extinct genus of placodont reptiles erected by Otto Jaekel in 1902.