And that was the end of that first group of giant, skin-shelled turtles -- the protostegids.
这就是第一批巨型皮壳龟——原龟的终结。
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Just like the protostegids did 50 million years earlier, this group diversified and spread around the world, their fossils found in deposits from Japan to the UK.
And some of the earliest protostegids had bodies like Archelon's: big, with lightweight shells, which may have let them travel long distances and spread out around the world.