Ashleychelys palmeri, Turtle skeleton
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Description:
One partial skull, shell and anterior limb elements associated with sea turtle (Ashleychelys palmeri) remains.
HOLOTYPE
- Site: SC; Berkeley Co.; Sangaree Elementary
- Site Number: NH30O
- Era: Cenozoic
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Cheloniidae
- Genus: Ashleychelys
- Species: Ashleychelys palmeri
- Formation: Ashley
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV7002
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