Pleurodira: Side-Necked and Snake-Necked Turtles | Olympus LS

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Pleurodira: Side-Necked and Snake-Necked Turtles — Pleurodira: Side-Necked and Snake-Necked Turtles
Transparent thin sections prepared from fossilized bone material often yield clues about the anatomy and physiology of now-extinct dinosaurs and other creatures. The micrograph above illustrates minerals that have formed in the fossilized bone from an ancient species of pleurodira.