
Sea turtle bones are relatively common discoveries at Carmel Church. More specifically, we commonly find fragments of the the carapace (upper shell), almost all of which belong to a small, extinct turtle called Syllomus. While we've probably found over 100 carapace fragments, we don't commonly find any other parts of the skeleton. For many years, we had three or four vertebrae, and that was it. But in 2002 Bryce Harrison found our first fragmentary turtle humerus, shown above.
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