Eurysternidae

{{Short description|Extinct family of turtles}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Kimmeridgian|Tithonian}}

| image = Eurysternum.jpg

| taxon = Eurysternidae

| authority = Dollo, 1886

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

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Eurysternidae is an extinct family of turtles in the clade Thalassochelydia. It consists of several genera of marine turtles from marine deposits in Europe, including Achelonia, Chelonides, Eurysternum. Hydropelta, Chelonides, Idiochelys, Palaeomedusa, Parachelys. and Solnhofia.{{cite journal|last1=Anquetin|first1=J.|last2=Püntener|first2=C.|last3=Joyce|first3=W.G.|year=2017|title=A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia|journal=Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History|volume=58|issue=2|pages=317–369|doi=10.3374/014.058.0205|s2cid=31091127|url=https://doc.rero.ch/record/305668/files/joy_rfr.pdf}}

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