Alabama Turtle Shell Fragment Identification

Turtle Shell Fragment is a realistic Alabama fossil profile built around scute or shell plate from freshwater or marine turtles. In this state, success usually comes from learning phosphate pits, shell hash beaches, and river gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.

Key Traits

  • pitted bone texture
  • scale sutures
  • curved plate form
  • Check phosphate pits, shell hash beaches, and river gravels

Era

Cretaceous-Pleistocene

Type

reptile

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