Virginia Turtle Shell Fragment
Cretaceous-Pleistocene
About Virginia Turtle Shell Fragment
The Virginia Turtle Shell Fragment is a reptile fossil dating to the Cretaceous-Pleistocene. Turtle Shell Fragment is a realistic Virginia fossil profile built around scute or shell plate from freshwater or marine turtles. In this state, success usually comes from learning calcareous cliffs, shell beds, and estuary gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.
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Identification Tips
- ●pitted bone texture
- ●scale sutures
- ●curved plate form
- ●Check calcareous cliffs, shell beds, and estuary gravels
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