Amyda

Amyda is a genus of softshell turtles in the family Trionychidae. It contains two extant species:Amyda cartilaginea - Asiatic softshell turtle ; Amyda ornata - Southeast Asian softshell turtle.

Amyda

Samuel Lee · CC BY 4.0 · 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
ChitriniPBDB
Diet
piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Trionychidae
Life habit
aquatic, solitaryPBDB, for Trionychidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trionychidae
Environment
brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Trionychidae

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 12 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Amyda on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

12 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

4 formations

Bridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WTar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°W

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The named rock units Amyda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amyda and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Amyda and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

243 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Amyda, and this reads all 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

8 references

Each of the 12 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. 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 Amyda

Credit
Samuel Lee
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Amyda cartilaginea · zmuc:rept:Uninv_240

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itChitrini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809)