Basilemys gaffneyi

Basilemys gaffneyi

C. Sternberg · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
BasilemysPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 22 of 22 occurrencesLate Cretaceous84–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84.1 Mya71.7 Mya

22 occurrences of Basilemys gaffneyi 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

22 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

3 formations

Kirtland — 36.30°N, 108.55°WKirtland — 36.19°N, 107.89°WKirtland — 36.14°N, 108.11°WKirtland — 36.34°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 36.29°N, 108.54°WFruitland — 36.12°N, 107.78°WFruitland — 36.29°N, 108.55°WKirtland? — 36.29°N, 108.54°W

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The named rock units Basilemys gaffneyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Basilemys gaffneyi and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Basilemys gaffneyi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Basilemys gaffneyi, 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

1 reference

Each of the 22 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 content2

Picture of Basilemys gaffneyi

Source
GBIF
Credit
C. Sternberg
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Basilemys gaffneyi · dmnh:130986

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 itBasilemys through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sullivan et al. 2012