Early Cretaceous Turtle Humerous (leg bone) 100mya undescribed

The earliest known turtles date back to the late Permian approximately 250 million years ago, turtles looked very different to how they look now. Some of the earliest known turtles had teeth and not much of a shell, which we are used to seeing today, they had an intermediate collection of bones which may have repositioned during evolution to form the Carapace and plastron (top and bottom of modern day turtle shells). As they evolved, they eventually lost the need for teeth which was replaced with a hard beak structure and finally the shell hardened and bounced as a weapon and protection. It’s around the late Cretaceous that we see forms of turtles that we would recognise today.This is a superb leg bone from an early turtle species, the bone is complete but has had to be glued in one place. Location it was found, Kem Kem, Morocco, North Africa. It’s not possible to identify the exact species of turtle, but is of an early specimen.