Description

Cretaceous Turtle Skull

Cretaceous

Hunan Province, China.

69mm turtle skull.

Reptile.

Turtles have a long history dating back to the Triassic.  By the Late Cretaceous they were quite diverse with sea turtles and freshwater forms.  While turtles survive to this day, one family died out with the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous.