228-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Complex Early History of Turtles

Sci-News.com ^ | Aug 24, 2018 | News Staff / Source

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An artist’s depiction of Eorhynchochelys sinensis as it would have appeared in life 228 million years ago in China.
Image credit: Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Photograph of the fossil turtle Eorhynchochelys sinensis. Image credit: Nick Fraser, National Museums Scotland.

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[trisham]

Fossils are fascinating and beautiful.

[Red Badger]

I was only THIS TALL then...............

[NorthMountain]

Thank you.

[bkopto]

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"Help, I've fallen and can't get up!"

[Red Badger]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ETL.

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[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

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[wildbill]

Another crucial discovery made by the scientific community on somebody else’s dollar.

I wonder where research would go if scientists were required to finance their own studies. I have no problem with the results if they are interesting, but no one really gives a rat’s ass about a 200 million year old turtle that apparently was a bottom feeder like most turtles today.

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[Vaquero]

Where I hunt in NY Southern Tier is a shale field filled mostly with Devonian fossils. Mostly little clam like shells. Occasionally you find the imprint of what looks like a sea worm. I keep the good ones I find.

[bert]

Oooohh...... thanks for that graphic.

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Where I hunt in NY Southern Tier is a shale field filled mostly with Devonian fossils. Mostly little clam like shells. Occasionally you find the imprint of what looks like a sea worm. I keep the good ones I find.

I've lived in New York City all of my 60 years. As a onetime geology major in the 1980s and avid camper, I've been Upstate many times (Catskills and Finger Lakes mainly). Lived in Central NY for ~two years in '89, in an old farmhouse in Beaver Meadow.

Yes, the Catskills are basically a large set of sedimentary beds atop layers of fossiliferous limestone. Where rivers and/or roadcuts dig deep enough the limestone sequences are exposed. This occurs mostly along the perimeter of the Catskills.