Atlantochelys

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Atlantochelys Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 83 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil humerus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Family:	†Protostegidae
Genus:	†Atlantochelys Leidy, 1865
Species:	†A. mortoni
Binomial name
†Atlantochelys mortoni Leidy, 1865

Atlantochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey. For 163 years, only a partial humerus was known, but the second part of the same bone was found in 2012.^[1][2][3] The full size has been extrapolated as being 3 m (9.8 ft).^[4]