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This Ancient Creature Shows How the Turtle Got Its Shell
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...ws-how-turtle-got-its-shell-180955688/?no-ist
More: http://www.reptileevolution.com/eunotosaurus.htm
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...ws-how-turtle-got-its-shell-180955688/?no-ist
The fossils, discovered in an ancient lakebed in Germany, belong to a newly named species called Pappochelys, Greek for “grandfather turtle.” Estimated to be about 240 million years old—putting it smack dab in the middle of the Triassic period—Pappochelys seems to hit the evolutionary sweet spot between older suspected turtle ancestors and more recent and established family members.
More: http://www.reptileevolution.com/eunotosaurus.htm