Carolinochelys wilsoni, Turtle shell
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Description:
Fragments of the carapace, plastron and vertebra associated with turtle (Carolinochelys wilsoni) remains.
This is the first record of Carolinachelys in bed 1 of the Chandler Bridge formation and the first record of the Chandler Bridge formation in the Ashley River banks.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Magnolia Gardens
- Site Number: NH20Ya
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Oligocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Family: Cheloniidae
- Genus: Carolinochelys
- Species: Carolinochelys wilsoni
- Formation: Chandler Bridge (Bed 1)
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Turtles
- Object Id: PV4819
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