Pleurodira: Side-Necked and Snake-Necked Turtles | Evident Scientific

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.