Bothremys

Bothremys is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle that was discovered near Gloucester, New Jersey. The genus consists of type species B. cooki, B. arabicus, B. kellyi, and B. maghrebiana.

No picture of Bothremys 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 Bothremys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BothremydinaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Pleurodira
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Pleurodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Pleurodira

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 57.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 10 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 14 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83.6 Mya57.5 Mya86.3 Mya55.4 Mya

14 occurrences of Bothremys 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

14 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

9 formations

Tar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WTar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WCouche 2 — 34.32°N, 5.85°WWadi Umm Ghudran — 31.01°N, 35.73°EMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WMooreville Chalk — 32.44°N, 87.21°WWilliamsburg — 33.43°N, 80.10°WCoachman — 34.24°N, 79.84°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.16°W

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The named rock units Bothremys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bothremys and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Bothremys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

288 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Bothremys, 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 14 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 content0

No picture of Bothremys 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 Bothremys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bothremys 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.

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What may have been alongside itBothremydina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1865