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By sixgill pete (edited)
Turtle Plastron
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Paleogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Oligocene
International Age: Rupelian
River Bend Formation
Collector: Don Rideout
Date Collected: 08/15/2014
Acquired by: Field Collection
Length: 74.3 mm
Width: 77.8 mm
Thickness: 16.1 mm
Belgrade Quarry
Jones County
North Carolina
United States
This piece of turtle plastron was identified by Dr. Weems (an in hand look) as the sea turtle Carolinochelys wilsoni. I had been trying to I.D. it for a while before I was able to get it into his hands. It is about 1/4 of the plastron and this turtle is thought to possibly be the extinct ancestor of the modern loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta). C. wilsoni is the only species in the genus.
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