During the late Cretaceous to Paleogene period, aquatic turtles were the most abundant of all the suborder Lateral-necked turtles, but there are only 19 extant species of lateral-necked turtles, which are distributed in rivers and lakes in tropical regions such as Africa and South America.
Name: Side-necked turtle
Age: Morning New Age
Location: South America (Venezuela)
Size: Length 2 meters
This turtle has been extinct for nearly 3 million years and is also large in the suborder Lateral-necked turtle. It is the largest freshwater turtle in history, and its modern relatives are of no comparable size — the largest surviving South American giant side-necked turtle in the Orinoco and Amazon rivers is only 75 centimeters long.
The turtle's heavy shell on its back is extremely wide, about 1.8 meters long, and its weight allows it to lurk for a long time and feed on weeds in the water.