Cardichelyon

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DermatemydidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Dermatemydidae
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Dermatemydidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dermatemydidae

Time the record covers

At least 1.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 51.1 Mya.

Paleocene — about 15 of 33 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 18 of 33 occurrencesEocene61–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57.5 Mya56 Mya61.4 Mya50.6 Mya

33 occurrences of Cardichelyon on record. 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

33 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

4 formations

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 43.92°N, 107.58°WWillwood — 44.08°N, 108.22°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.21°N, 108.48°WWasatch — 42.24°N, 110.19°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 39.27°N, 108.18°WFort Union — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 40.10°N, 108.20°W

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The named rock units Cardichelyon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Cardichelyon, 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

3 references

Each of the 33 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

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cardichelyon rogerwoodi · YPM:VP:YPM VPPU 014671

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

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDermatemydidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hutchison 2013