Carolinochelys wilsoni, Turtle shell
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Description:
Shell fragments associated with sea turtle (Carolinochelys wilsoni) remains from the Late Oligocene.
- Site: Westview Subdivision
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Cheloniidae
- Genus: Carolinochelys
- Species: Carolinochelys wilsoni
- Formation: Chandler Bridge
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV4175
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