Adocidae

The Adocidae are an extinct family of aquatic and omnivorous turtles. They are freshwater cryptodiran turtles and are mainly known from Cretaceous and Paleogene Asia and North America.

Adocidae

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrionychoideaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 347 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 347 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 299 of 347 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 347 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 347 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 347 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 347 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 8 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 4 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 16 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 18 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 12 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 32 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 50 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 50 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 53 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 58 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 15 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121.4 Mya27.3 Mya146 Mya21 Mya

347 occurrences of Adocidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

347 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

74 formations

Hell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 46.03°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.88°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.98°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.27°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 46.23°N, 104.23°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.50°WHell Creek — 45.87°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WKirtland — 36.29°N, 108.23°WKirtland — 36.34°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 36.19°N, 107.89°WKirtland — 36.20°N, 108.10°WKirtland — 36.50°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 36.14°N, 108.11°WKirtland — 36.29°N, 108.54°WKirtland — 36.17°N, 107.80°WFruitland — 36.49°N, 108.49°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.26°WFruitland — 36.10°N, 108.08°WFruitland — 36.12°N, 107.78°WFruitland — 36.29°N, 108.55°WKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 67.00°EKhodzhakul — 40.60°N, 71.83°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EKhodzhakul — 41.97°N, 61.07°EKhodzhakul — 42.37°N, 60.03°EBostobe — 46.76°N, 64.33°EBostobe — 49.52°N, 74.39°EBostobe — 46.57°N, 63.87°EBostobe — 46.57°N, 64.38°EBostobe — 46.48°N, 64.43°EBostobe — 45.95°N, 64.65°EBaynshire — 43.14°N, 107.52°EBaynshire — 44.48°N, 110.03°EBaynshire — 44.45°N, 107.38°EBaynshire — 44.27°N, 109.91°EBaynshire — 43.50°N, 107.76°EBaynshire — 43.56°N, 107.91°EBaynshire — 44.35°N, 109.35°EBaynshire — 44.36°N, 109.35°EKaiparowits — 37.58°N, 111.94°WKaiparowits — 37.75°N, 111.61°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.79°WKaiparowits — 37.30°N, 112.43°WKaiparowits — 37.53°N, 111.76°WKaiparowits — 37.45°N, 111.53°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WHornerstown — 40.30°N, 74.10°WHornerstown — 40.12°N, 74.55°WHornerstown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.16°WKirtland? — 36.29°N, 108.54°WKirtland? — 36.27°N, 108.17°WAguja — 29.20°N, 103.55°WAguja — 29.25°N, 103.55°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EBissekty — 41.29°N, 61.50°ESao Khua — 16.89°N, 104.08°ESao Khua — 16.68°N, 103.57°ESao Khua — 16.90°N, 102.65°ESao Khua — 16.86°N, 104.48°ESao Khua — 17.07°N, 104.16°EDenver — 39.63°N, 104.33°WDenver — 39.50°N, 104.70°WDenver — 38.91°N, 104.53°WYalovach — 40.49°N, 69.70°EYalovach — 40.12°N, 70.63°EJudith River — 46.47°N, 109.30°WJudith River — 48.93°N, 110.58°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WJudith River — 46.44°N, 109.83°WDinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.17°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WObayla — 48.07°N, 84.12°ESyuksyuk — 41.98°N, 69.50°ESyuksyuk — 41.95°N, 68.94°ESyuksyuk — 41.82°N, 68.45°EKynyr — 41.78°N, 70.22°EKynyr — 41.66°N, 69.16°ELaramie — 40.39°N, 104.49°WLaramie — 39.50°N, 104.70°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.50°N, 101.75°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.50°N, 101.40°WCerro del Pueblo — 26.12°N, 101.12°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WForemost — 49.60°N, 111.00°W

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The named rock units Adocidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adocidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Adocidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

913 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 309 sites for Adocidae, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

84 references

Each of the 347 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 72 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Adocidae

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Adocidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1869