Axestemys montinsana
No picture of Axestemys montinsana 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 Axestemys montinsana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AxestemysPBDB
- 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 63.4 Mya to 60.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 57.5 Mya.
4 occurrences of Axestemys montinsana on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
4 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Axestemys montinsana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Axestemys montinsana and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Axestemys montinsana and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Anura1 site
- Arctocyon corrugatus1 site
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis1 site
- Carpodaptes hazelae1 site
- Chriacus pelvidens1 site
- Dissacus1 site
- Ectypodus powelli1 site
- Elpidophorus elegans1 site
- Ignacius frugivorus1 site
- Leptacodon tener1 site
- Lisserpeton bairdi1 site
- Litocherus notissimus1 site
- Mesodma pygmaea1 site
- Nannodectes1 site
- Neoplagiaulax1 site
- Neoplagiaulax hunteri1 site
- Opisthotriton kayi1 site
- Paleotomus senior1 site
- Pararyctes pattersoni1 site
- Plesiadapis anceps1 site
- Protictis1 site
- Ptilodus1 site
- Saxochelys gilberti1 site
- Thryptacodon australis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Axestemys montinsana, 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- The trionychid turtle Axestemys montinsana from the Paleocene Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico2
- Giant fossil soft-shelled turtles of North America2
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Axestemys montinsana 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 Axestemys montinsana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Axestemys montinsana 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAxestemys through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vitek 2012