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Archelon is an extinct marine turtle from the Late Cretaceous, and is the largest turtle ever to have been documented, with the biggest specimen measuring 4.6 m (15 ft) from head to tail and 2.2–3.2 t (2.4–3.5 short tons) in body mass.
Megalochelys ("great turtle") is an extinct genus of tortoises that lived from the Miocene to Pleistocene.They are noted for their giant size, the largest known for any tortoise, with a maximum carapace length of over 2 m (6.5 ft) in M. atlas.
The largest known turtle ever was Archelon ischyros at 5 m (16 ft) long and 2,200 kg (4,900 lb). [282] Possible second-largest sea turtle was Protostega at 3.9 m (13 ft) in total body length. [283] [284] There is even a larger specimen of this genus from Texas estimated at 4.2 m (14 ft) in total length.
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Protostegidae is a family of extinct marine turtles that lived during the Cretaceous period. The family includes some of the largest sea turtles that ever existed. The largest, Archelon, had a head one metre (39 in) long.
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A rare kind of sea turtle nest was found on the beach at Huntington Beach State Park in the Murrells Inlet area, the South Carolina United Turtle Enthusiasts (SCUTE) posted on Facebook.. Kemp’s ...
The Carbonemys holotype had a shell that measured about 1.72 metres (5 ft 8 in) and estimated at 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in) for complete carapace. [1] This would make it one of the world's largest turtles, tied with the Quaternary Peltocephalus maturin and Eocene Drazinderetes in carapace length and only outsized by the Cretaceous protostegids, the Miocene Stupendemys, and two Quaternary ...