20495 - Top Rare 5.14 Inch Complete Bothremydidae Eocene Sea Turtle Lower Jaw Weltonia offshore shelf

offshore shelf

A preparation of this piece could make the rest of the teeth show up from under the rock

with a Mohs hardness of only 3

-First Cretaceous dermochelyid turtle from Africa

Basic information: Campo del Cielo IAB-MG: Meteoritical Bulletin Database

20495 - Top Rare 5.14 Inch Complete Bothremydidae Eocene Sea Turtle Lower Jaw Weltonia offshore shelfBeautiful lower jaw. Unidentified genus within the family Bothremydidae. Since the rst study of Moroccan fossil turtles, and the up dated overview by Lapparent de Broin of Moroccan fossil turtles, abundant new material has been obtained from the Maastrichtian to the Ypresian phosphatic basins of Morocco. Phosphate turtles belong to the two major groups of extant turtles: Pleurodira, mostly represented by the fossil Bothremydidae (more than ten