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The ancient turtle was much larger than today's largest turtle - the leatherback, which can reach 2 meters long. Leviathanochelys nearly matched the largest turtle on record - Archelon, which lived roughly 70 million years ago and reached about 4.6 meters long.
Plying the subtropical seas that washed the coasts of the archipelago that made up Europe 83 million years ago was one of the largest turtles on record, a reptile the size of a.