Atlantochelys
| Atlantochelys Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Fossil humerus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | †Protostegidae |
| Genus: | †Atlantochelys Agassiz, 1849 |
| Species: | †A. mortoni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Atlantochelys mortoni Agassiz, 1849
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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. The full size has been extrapolated as being 3 m (9.8 ft).