Softshell Turtle
date: label: Collection Date
content: 2014
name: label: Collector
content: A. Bolton
label: Discipline
content: Paleobiology
label: Region
content: US High Plains and Rocky Mountains (ID, MT, ND, SD, WY, CO)
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: Cenozoic - Paleogene - Puercan I
label: Notes
content: These are fragments of fossilized bones from a softshell turtle, or Trionychidae, a specific taxonomic family of turtles. Turtles are one of the oldest groups of reptiles. Softshell turtles differ from other turtles because of the layer of skin over their shells compared to the other turtles with hard scales (scutes). Each fossilized bone fragment measures around 4.5 cm x 4 cm x 1.5 cm in size or less.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 27
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Nov 2020
label: Stratigraphy
content: Fort Union
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: North America, United States, Montana, Fallon County
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Trionychidae
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO401524
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Tetrapoda, Reptilia, Testudines, Cryptodira, Trionychidae