Turtle - Marine Reptile

Fossil photo | Fri 9 Dec 2011  

A bone of a small turtle, collected from the 95-million-year-old uppermost Gearle Siltstone. This is the first find of a turtle from the Gearle Siltstone. Some marine turtles of Cretaceous age grew to enormous sizes with the dorsal shell (carapace) measuring up to 4 metres in length.