Manchurochelyes liaoxensis, turtle Protoceratops " was a huge

" was a huge

Crinoids are assigned to the phylum Echinodermata

small head

4 inches) long and 74

it had star-shaped tubercle scales that allowed it to seize

Manchurochelyes liaoxensis, turtle Protoceratops " was a hugeThis is a rare complete skeletonand shell replica of a 130 million year old (Cretaceous fossil turtle from China. It is a distant relative of the modern day snapping turtle. Liaoning Province, China, has become one of the foremost paleontological sites in the world since the discovery of Sinosauropteryx, a small feathered meat eating dinosaur, from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation. Since the 1990s dozens of groundbreaking finds have been