Chelone

No picture of Chelone was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chelone itself, so it was not used. Wikipedia and 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 Chelone, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CheloniidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Chelonioidea

Time the record covers

At least 118 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesMiocene140–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–9.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences132.6 Mya13.82 Mya140 Mya9 Mya

16 occurrences of Chelone on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

Selsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WWittering — 51.08°N, 1.17°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBoom — 51.09°N, 4.36°ETunbridge Wells Sand — 51.09°N, 0.17°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 52.20°N, 0.13°E

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The named rock units Chelone 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.

Chelone and its relatives

Eocene

Where Chelone and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

483 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Chelone, 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

11 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 content0

No picture of Chelone was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chelone itself, so it was not used.

Wikipedia and 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 Chelone, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Chelone 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCheloniidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758