Two fossils discovered separately turned out to be a perfect match, ultra-gigantic sea turtle by the time of 160 years

Gregory Harper, an amateur paleontologist in the state of New Jersey in the United States, discovered a fossil that seems to be a sea turtle,University of Drexel Philadelphia Academy of Natural SciencesI donated it to the company. Museum museums are found in the 1840s and are found as part of the humerus of the sea turtle species kept at the museum "Fossil"Atlantochelys mortoniNoticing that it is similar to the two fossils, it turned out that the cross sections of both sides are completely identical and are of the same individual.

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Mr. Harper, a paleontologist, discovered a fossil of a shark's teeth in New Jersey and discovered a big rock as it was excavating. Mr. Harper noticed something fossils, not rocks, because the rock was strangely heavy and shark bite, and donated a fossil to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences for further investigation.


Mr. Jason Shine of the museum and curator David Paris noticed that the received fossil resembles the fossil of the sea turtle "Atlantochelys mortoni" discovered and kept in the 1840's and "It is impossible, mortoni What is the lower half of ...? "?" When we looked at two fossils, it was totally perfectly matched.


When verified in various places of Drexel University, it is proved that the agreement between the two fossils is not a mistake, and Dr. Ted Daeschler of Drexel University says "I was amazedly surprised when two fossils were combined" I am talking. Although it is reproduced to the humerus of the sea turtle inhabited in the Cretaceous years ago of 75 million years ago, although it is very similar to the modern sea turtle, the total length from the head to the tail reaches 3 meters in the past maximum size It is known that it is a sea turtle.


The results of the survey on Atlantochelys mortoni are as followsPNAS(Bulletin of the American Academy of Sciences).