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Fossilized turtle
Museu Nacional
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(Price, 1973). This specimen comes from the calcareous nodules of the Araripe Basin, Northeast Brazil, dating from the Lower Cretaceous - 110 million years. The representatives of this species constitute the oldest records of turtles described in Brazil.
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- Title: Fossilized turtle
- Creator Lifespan: -110000000/-110000000
- Rights: Copyright © 2017 Museu Nacional/UFRJ
- Setor: Paleontologia
- Sala de Exposição: Maxakalisaurus topai
- Nome Cientifico: Araripemys barretoi
- Local de Coleta/Origem: Bacia do Araripe, Nordeste do Brasil
- Data de Origem/Produção: 110 milhões de anos atrás
- Area de Conhecimento: Paleontologia
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