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Archelon ischyros
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Archelon ischyros

Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Yale Peabody Museum · 2016 · Vertebrate Paleontology specimen photograph (FossilSpecimen)

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Type status: paratype. Geological context: Cretaceous, Pierre Shale. Collection locality: Custer County, South Dakota, USA. Collected by George R. Wieland, 1897. skull, mandible, humeri, radii, ulnae, hyoplastra, entepiplastron [description is that of "Specimen No. 2" as given on the inventory of]; VP number 1783; lot count 1; accn=YPM.02421; associatedwith=VPAR.000118,VPAR.000119,VPAR.000120,VPAR.000121,VP.065854,VPAR.000114,VPAR.000115,VPAR.000116,VPAR.000117.

Yale Peabody Museum’s own description
Credit lineArchelon ischyros (YPM VP 001783). Photograph by Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Yale Peabody Museum. Yale Peabody Museum, Vertebrate Paleontology. CC0.

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