Based on body fossils, the first proto-turtles are believed to have existed in the late Triassic Period of the Mesozoic era, about 220 million years ago, and ...
In these early fossils (most of the genus Proganochelys), the marginal teeth have already been ...
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (the crown group of the superorder Chelonia...
Until now the genus Psephophorus has been known only from Tertiary sediments in Europe, Egypt and the United States. Five specimens from mid Eocene ...
Order Testudines, Family Baenidae The extinct Baenidae family: is known only from western North America; dates back to the early Cretaceous ...
The fossilized carapace (shell) of a turtle from the Hell Creek formation of eastern Montana, USA; about 65 million years ago. These turtles lived in the rivers, lakes ...
The earliest fossils are from the beginning of the age of dinosaurs, in the late Triassic. The Testudines
Order Testudines (turtles). This fossil will only be tested at the State and National levels. Picture(s), Testudines.
FOSSIL LIST (CONT.) Class Amphibia
... the turtle order, Testudines (or Chelonia), splits into two suborders,