Adocus

Adocus is an extinct genus of aquatic turtles belonging to the family Adocidae.

Adocus

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
AdocidaePBDB
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 125.77 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 271 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 241 of 271 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 271 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 271 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 271 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 271 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 6 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 5 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 29 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 41 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 41 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 44 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 48 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 24 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 5 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121.4 Mya27.3 Mya128 Mya21 Mya

271 occurrences of Adocus 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

271 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

58 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°WKaiparowits — 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°WBaynshire — 43.14°N, 107.52°EBaynshire — 44.48°N, 110.03°EBaynshire — 44.35°N, 109.35°EBaynshire — 44.34°N, 109.86°EBaynshire — 44.36°N, 109.35°EDenver — 39.63°N, 104.33°WDenver — 39.50°N, 104.70°WDenver — 38.91°N, 104.53°WBostobe — 46.76°N, 64.33°EBostobe — 46.57°N, 63.87°EBostobe — 46.57°N, 64.38°EBostobe — 46.48°N, 64.43°EBostobe — 45.95°N, 64.65°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°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°EDinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°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°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EYalovach — 40.49°N, 69.70°EYalovach — 40.12°N, 70.63°EFort Crittenden — 31.67°N, 110.77°WSengoku — 33.70°N, 130.64°E

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The named rock units Adocus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adocus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

896 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 257 sites for Adocus, 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

68 references

Each of the 271 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. 56 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 content2

Picture of Adocus

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

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Adocus sp. · amnh:farb:1204

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAdocidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1868