Carettochelyidae

Searched as Carettochelyidae indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Carettochelyidae as the accepted name.

Carettochelyidae

Uncredited · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
TrionychiaPBDB
Diet
herbivore, omnivorePBDB
Life habit
aquaticPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–3.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100.5 Mya7.246 Mya124 Mya3 Mya

16 occurrences of Carettochelyidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

16 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

Dam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EGrès supérieurs — 16.40°N, 105.65°EGrès supérieurs — 16.97°N, 105.98°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°E"Brian Head" — 37.80°N, 111.50°WBeshtyubin — 40.10°N, 67.00°EDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WCambay Shale — 21.35°N, 73.07°EVaugirard — 48.81°N, 2.24°ETamagawa — 40.19°N, 141.78°E

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The named rock units Carettochelyidae 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.

Carettochelyidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Carettochelyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,337 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 143 sites for Carettochelyidae, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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 Carettochelyidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carettochelyidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itTrionychia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gill 1889)