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Atlantochelys

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Suborder
  
Cryptodira

Family
  
†Protostegidae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Reptilia

Clade
  
Americhelydia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Turtle

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Similar
  
Cratochelone, Protosphargis, Glarichelys

Atlantochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey. For 163 years, only a partial humerus was known, but the second part of the same bone was found in 2012.

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Atlantochelys Wikipedia