Fossil Find in Syria: Unknown Sea Turtle Discovered

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Near the Syrian city of Afrin, an international research team, including researchers from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, has discovered a previously unknown fossil sea turtle. The newly named species, Syriemys lelunensis, dates back to the early Eocene, approximately 50 million years ago. The find includes a fully preserved internal shell impression, as well as parts of the ventral…