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CRATOCHELONE
(cra-to-cel-one)
Named By: Herber L. Longman in 1915
Time Period: Albian
Location: Australia, Queensland - Toolebuc Formation
Size: Possibly up to about 4 meters long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial fore limb remains as well as a fragment of shell
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Testudines | Cryptodira | Protostegidae |
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Cratochelone is an extinct genus of sea turtle in the family Protostegidae and containing a single species Cratochelone berneyi. The species is known only from the mid to late Albian Toolebuc Formation, part of the rolling downs group, in the Hughenden of Central northern Queensland, Australia.

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