Ashleychelys palmeri, Turtle shell
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Description:
A major portion of a carapace that is missing the anterior and posterior regions and miscellaneous skeletal elements associated with sea turtle (Ashleychelys palmeri) remains.
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.; Stallsville
- Site Number: NH40Bc
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Cheloniidae
- Genus: Ashleychelys
- Species: Ashleychelys palmeri
- Formation: Chandler Bridge
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV2142
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