Batagur affinis
The southern river terrapin is a riverine turtle of the family Geoemydidae found in Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Southern River terrapinPBDB
- Sits inside
- BatagurPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira
Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
7 occurrences of Batagur affinis on record. 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene29%
- Holocene71%
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 the same rock
32 taxa- Malayemys macrocephala5 sites
- Amyda4 sites
- Cuora amboinensis4 sites
- Heosemys4 sites
- Heosemys annandalii4 sites
- Heosemys grandis3 sites
- Siebenrockiella crassicollis3 sites
- Testudinidae3 sites
- Crocodylus siamensis2 sites
- Indotestudo elongata2 sites
- Trionychidae2 sites
- Amyda cartilaginea1 site
- Bos (Bibos)1 site
- Bubalus palaeokerabau1 site
- Cervus lydekkeri1 site
- Chitra chitra1 site
- Duboisia santeng1 site
- Gavialis bengawanicus1 site
- Geochelone1 site
- Homo erectus1 site
- Hystrix1 site
- Macaca fascicularis1 site
- Manouria emys1 site
- Mececyon trinilensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Batagur affinis, 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 recent fossil turtle record of the central plain of Thailand reveals local extinctions5
- Evidences of cheloniophagy by early hominid (Homo erectus) during middle of pleistocene from beds of trinil’s layers in central Java (Indonesia), with an updated list of trinil’s testudines, and a redescription of Duboisemys isoclina (Dubois, 1908)2
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Batagur affinis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Batagur affinis 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.
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 itBatagur through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cantor 1847