Ashleychelys palmeri, Turtle skeleton
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Description:
The right anterior portion of the carapace, the left humerus and distal end of the right humerus, fragments of the plastron and miscellaneous skeletal elements, associated with sea turtle (Ashleychelys palmeri) remains.
Range PV2141 through PV2279.
- 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 (Bed 1)
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV2141
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