Alligator Snapping Turtle
Macrochelys temminckii  (Harlan, 1835)
The record weight 318-pound specimen collected by Al & Faye Redmond in June 1978 from the Flint River (at a depth of 35 feet) near Newton, Baker County, Georgia; this turtle is the basis for the record weight as it appears in Conant & Collins (1998).
Photographer unknown
 

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