Atlantochelys
| Atlantochelys Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Fossil humerus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | †Protostegidae |
| Genus: | †Atlantochelys Leidy, 1865 |
| Species: | †A. mortoni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Atlantochelys mortoni Leidy, 1865 | |
Atlantochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey. For 163 years, only a partial humerus was known, but the second part of the same bone was found in 2012.[1][2][3] The full size has been extrapolated as being 3 m (9.8 ft).[4]
References
- ^ Parris, D., Schein, J., Daeschler, E., Gilmore, E., Poole, J., Pellegrini, R. Two halves make a holotype: two hundred years between discoveries. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 163. ISSN 0097-3157.
- ^ "Paleontologists assemble giant turtle bone from fossil discoveries made centuries apart".
- ^ "Monster turtle fossils re-united". BBC News. 25 March 2014.
- ^ Parry, Wynne (March 25, 2014). "Missing Half of Bone Reveals Prehistoric Sea Giant". LiveScience. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
