Apalone lima
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ApalonePBDB
- 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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
3 occurrences of Apalone lima on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Kirkwood Formation1
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- Old Church Formation · Chesapeake Group1
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The named rock units Apalone lima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apalone lima and its relatives
MioceneWhere Apalone lima and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
203 taxa- Carcharias cuspidatus2 sites
- Galeocerdo aduncus2 sites
- Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) wilsoni2 sites
- Hemipristis serra2 sites
- Aetobatus1 site
- Ameiseophis robinsoni1 site
- Amphicyon longiramus1 site
- Anchitheriomys1 site
- Anchitherium1 site
- Anthracotheriidae1 site
- Archaeohippus blackbergi1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Astarte distans1 site
- Aves1 site
- Barbouromeryx trigonocorneus1 site
- Bassariscinae indet.1 site
- Batrachosauroides dissimulans1 site
- Bicorbula idonea1 site
- Busycotyphus scalarispira1 site
- Cadulus conradi1 site
- Caecum calvertense1 site
- Calamagras1 site
- Calliostoma eboreus1 site
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Apalone lima, 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
2 references- Amphibians and nonmarine turtles from the Miocene Calvert Formation of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (USA)2
- Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Apalone lima was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Apalone lima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apalone lima was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itApalone through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1869)