Reconstruction of a snail-eating turtle (IMAGE)

Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns

Reconstruction of a snail-eating turtle

Caption

Reconstruction of a snail-eating turtle of the group Baenidae. It is sitting on a land turtle of the genus Basilemys, which became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period. In the background is a skull of Tyrannosaurus rex.  

Credit

Joschua Knüppe, Palaeoartist

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License

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