Cardiochelys rupeliensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CardiochelysPBDB
- Diet
- durophage, piscivorePBDB, for Dermochelyidae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Dermochelyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Dermochelyidae
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cardiochelys rupeliensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cardiochelys rupeliensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cardiochelys rupeliensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cardiochelys rupeliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Aetomylaeus striatus1 site
- Allopleuron lipsiensis1 site
- Anomotherium langewieschei1 site
- Anthracotherium1 site
- Apterodon intermedius1 site
- Carcharias contortidens1 site
- Cheirogaster1 site
- Chelyopsis halleri1 site
- Chimaera1 site
- Diomedeoides lipsiensis1 site
- Diplocynodon1 site
- Dugongidae1 site
- Eggysodon osborni1 site
- Entelodon1 site
- Epiaceratherium magnum1 site
- Lophius dolloi1 site
- Oligochelone rupelensis1 site
- Parotodus benedeni1 site
- Protapirus1 site
- Rhinoptera1 site
- Ronzotherium1 site
- Ronzotherium filholi1 site
- Stenoplesictis cayluxi1 site
- Tragulidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cardiochelys rupeliensis, 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- The fossil reptiles (Reptilia: Chelonii, Crocodylia) from the marine early Oligocene of the Weisselster Basin (Central Germany: Saxonia)1
- Evolution and Phylogeny of Leatherback Turtles (Dermochelyidae), with Descriptions of New Fossil Taxa1
- The fossil vertebrates of Belgium1
Each of the 3 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 Cardiochelys rupeliensis 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 Cardiochelys rupeliensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cardiochelys rupeliensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itCardiochelys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Van Beneden 1883)