Painted turtles are brightly marked. They have a smooth shell about 90 to 250 mm long. The upper shell is relatively flat with red and yellow markings on a black or greenish brown background. Their shell acts as protection, but since the ribs are fused to the shell, they cannot expand their chests to breathe.
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1 Thomas Mellon (1813â1908), Judge and founder of the Mellon Bank who married Sarah Jane Negley of Pittsburgh. 2  As a boy he decided to abandon his parents' farming lifestyle for law and banking in the city after reading Benjamin Franklin 's autobiography. James Ross (Jay) Mellon II (*1942) successful hunter and author of books about Abraham Lincoln, Slavery in America and his familyâs founding patriarch, Thomas Mellon.