Testudines

Searched as Chelonia. The Paleobiology Database treats Testudines as the accepted name.

Testudines

Ernst Haeckel · Public Domain · 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
Also called
turtlePBDB
Sits inside
TestudinataPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 246 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 9209 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 4 of 9209 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 9209 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 9209 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 9 of 9209 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 43 of 9209 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 99 of 9209 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 399 of 9209 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2688 of 9209 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 558 of 9209 occurrencesEocene — about 1576 of 9209 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 350 of 9209 occurrencesMiocene — about 1793 of 9209 occurrencesPliocene — about 459 of 9209 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1043 of 9209 occurrences256–247 Mya — about 3 occurrences247–239 Mya — about 2 occurrences239–230 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences222–213 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences205–196 Mya — about 4 occurrences196–188 Mya — about 4 occurrences188–179 Mya — about 2 occurrences179–171 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–162 Mya — about 40 occurrences162–153 Mya — about 30 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 59 occurrences145–136 Mya — about 40 occurrences136–128 Mya — about 37 occurrences128–119 Mya — about 127 occurrences119–111 Mya — about 112 occurrences111–102 Mya — about 74 occurrences102–94 Mya — about 239 occurrences94–85 Mya — about 171 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 723 occurrences77–68 Mya — about 1165 occurrences68–60 Mya — about 783 occurrences60–51 Mya — about 613 occurrences51–43 Mya — about 590 occurrences43–34 Mya — about 545 occurrences34–26 Mya — about 270 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 498 occurrences17–8.5 Mya — about 1027 occurrences8.5–0 Mya — about 2046 occurrences247 Mya11.7 ka256 Mya0 Mya

9,209 occurrences of Testudines on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

9,209 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

1194 formations

Hell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 46.03°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.18°N, 103.84°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.88°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.98°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.58°N, 106.30°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.25°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.88°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.23°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 46.09°N, 100.63°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 45.38°N, 105.30°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.37°N, 104.08°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 104.43°WHell Creek — 46.23°N, 104.23°WHell Creek — 47.34°N, 108.22°WHell Creek — 46.70°N, 100.25°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.50°WHell Creek — 46.24°N, 107.38°WHell Creek — 47.70°N, 105.80°WHell Creek — 45.23°N, 103.21°WHell Creek — 47.27°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 45.89°N, 104.55°WHell Creek — 46.40°N, 103.42°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 104.50°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.50°WHell Creek — 45.87°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 45.53°N, 101.63°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WDenver — 39.70°N, 104.70°WDenver — 38.80°N, 104.80°WDenver — 39.61°N, 105.02°WDenver — 39.91°N, 105.15°WDenver — 39.84°N, 105.04°WDenver — 39.95°N, 105.23°WDenver — 39.70°N, 105.20°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WDenver — 38.89°N, 104.60°WDenver — 39.30°N, 104.30°WDenver — 39.63°N, 104.33°WDenver — 39.50°N, 104.70°WDenver — 38.91°N, 104.53°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.57°N, 108.60°WWillwood — 44.54°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.53°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.57°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.67°N, 108.73°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.78°N, 108.97°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 43.92°N, 107.58°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 43.92°N, 108.66°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.07°WWillwood — 44.21°N, 108.48°WWillwood — 44.08°N, 108.22°WWillwood — 43.99°N, 107.72°WWillwood — 44.32°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.20°WKirtland — 36.27°N, 108.21°WKirtland — 36.30°N, 108.55°WKirtland — 36.37°N, 108.57°WKirtland — 36.31°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 36.19°N, 107.89°WKirtland — 36.20°N, 108.10°WKirtland — 36.50°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 36.14°N, 108.11°WKirtland — 36.29°N, 108.54°WKirtland — 36.17°N, 107.80°WKirtland — 36.10°N, 107.79°WKirtland — 36.51°N, 108.32°WBridger — 42.37°N, 108.91°WBridger — 41.54°N, 109.80°WBridger — 41.13°N, 110.13°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.28°N, 110.23°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.60°N, 109.97°WBridger — 41.22°N, 109.72°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.84°N, 110.20°WBridger — 41.07°N, 110.00°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.30°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.32°N, 110.38°WBridger — 41.04°N, 110.23°WUinta — 40.10°N, 109.23°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°WUinta — 40.06°N, 109.62°WUinta — 40.15°N, 109.25°WUinta — 40.37°N, 109.64°WUinta — 40.04°N, 109.28°WUinta — 40.04°N, 109.66°WUinta — 40.16°N, 109.32°WUinta — 40.15°N, 109.62°WUinta — 40.20°N, 110.44°WUinta — 40.15°N, 109.75°WLance — 43.49°N, 104.46°WLance — 43.30°N, 104.37°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.65°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.52°WLance — 43.80°N, 104.62°WLance — 45.75°N, 101.20°WLance — 45.04°N, 108.80°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 44.97°N, 110.67°WLance — 45.34°N, 103.72°WLance — 45.39°N, 103.70°WLance — 45.60°N, 103.63°WLance — 45.93°N, 103.92°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.71°S, 67.47°WLa Colonia — 42.95°S, 67.54°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.69°WLa Colonia — 42.93°S, 67.54°WDinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WDinosaur Park — 49.07°N, 110.45°WDinosaur Park — 50.72°N, 111.56°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WNemegt — 43.54°N, 99.60°ENemegt — 43.44°N, 100.37°ENemegt — 47.73°N, 104.92°ENemegt — 43.00°N, 99.00°ENemegt — 44.07°N, 102.67°ENemegt — 43.87°N, 100.01°ENemegt — 43.85°N, 100.14°ENemegt — 43.47°N, 99.83°ENemegt — 43.60°N, 100.50°ENemegt — 43.50°N, 101.05°ENemegt — 43.48°N, 100.36°ENemegt — 43.48°N, 100.46°ENemegt — 46.82°N, 94.15°ENemegt — 43.82°N, 99.98°ENemegt — 43.49°N, 101.28°ENemegt — 43.54°N, 99.22°ENemegt — 44.44°N, 109.86°ENemegt — 43.58°N, 107.69°ENemegt — 43.72°N, 99.93°ENemegt — 43.47°N, 100.62°EKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.79°WKaiparowits — 37.75°N, 111.61°WKaiparowits — 37.58°N, 111.94°WKaiparowits — 37.72°N, 111.78°WKaiparowits — 37.49°N, 112.17°WKaiparowits — 37.49°N, 111.72°WKaiparowits — 37.30°N, 112.43°WKaiparowits — 37.84°N, 111.28°WKaiparowits — 37.82°N, 111.40°WKaiparowits — 37.53°N, 111.76°WKaiparowits — 37.45°N, 111.53°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 44.68°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 44.67°N, 108.45°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.05°N, 104.48°WFort Union — 46.10°N, 109.95°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.33°N, 104.01°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 47.70°N, 105.80°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.50°WFort Union — 45.90°N, 104.13°WFort Union — 41.60°N, 108.60°WFort Union — 39.27°N, 108.18°WFort Union — 39.20°N, 108.20°WFort Union — 39.10°N, 106.90°WFort Union — 46.23°N, 109.81°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.87°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.85°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.40°N, 76.50°WCalvert — 38.38°N, 76.99°WCalvert — 38.18°N, 76.97°WCalvert — 37.77°N, 77.28°WCalvert — 37.78°N, 77.52°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 35.20°N, 106.60°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.20°N, 107.67°WSan Jose — 36.14°N, 107.72°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.20°N, 103.55°WAguja — 29.36°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.29°N, 103.55°WBaynshire — 44.58°N, 109.44°EBaynshire — 43.14°N, 107.52°EBaynshire — 44.48°N, 110.03°EBaynshire — 44.45°N, 107.38°EBaynshire — 44.27°N, 109.91°EBaynshire — 44.18°N, 102.79°EBaynshire — 44.41°N, 109.84°EBaynshire — 43.50°N, 107.76°EBaynshire — 43.56°N, 107.91°EBaynshire — 44.46°N, 109.40°EBaynshire — 44.35°N, 109.35°EBaynshire — 43.94°N, 101.33°EBaynshire — 44.36°N, 109.35°EBaynshire — 43.47°N, 99.83°EBaynshire — 43.75°N, 109.63°ESolimões — 9.97°S, 67.80°WSolimões — 10.13°S, 67.81°WSolimões — 8.78°S, 68.90°WSolimões — 8.82°S, 72.82°WSolimões — 9.05°S, 68.77°WSolimões — 8.42°S, 70.51°WSolimões — 9.12°S, 70.13°WSolimões — 9.37°S, 69.94°WSolimões — 8.79°S, 67.47°WSolimões — 7.72°S, 67.00°WSolimões — 10.98°S, 69.71°WSolimões — 10.94°S, 69.52°WSolimões — 10.94°S, 69.35°WSolimões — 10.27°S, 67.83°WSolimões — 9.13°S, 72.70°WSolimões — 9.20°S, 72.72°WSolimões — 9.39°S, 72.72°WSolimões — 8.86°S, 72.77°WSolimões — 8.97°S, 72.78°WSolimões — 9.02°S, 72.72°WSolimões — 8.82°S, 67.58°WSolimões — 10.98°S, 68.73°WSolimões — 9.13°S, 68.68°WSolimões — 8.87°S, 67.78°WSolimões — 8.96°S, 68.62°WSolimões — 7.85°S, 72.67°WSolimões — 6.50°S, 69.67°WKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.26°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°EKoobi Fora — 3.77°N, 36.44°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 4.13°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.42°N, 36.25°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EKhodzhakul — 40.60°N, 71.83°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 67.00°EKhodzhakul — 41.97°N, 61.07°EKhodzhakul — 42.37°N, 60.03°EHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WHornerstown — 39.98°N, 74.71°WHornerstown — 40.12°N, 74.55°WHornerstown — 39.90°N, 74.82°WHornerstown — 40.30°N, 74.10°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.16°WHornerstown — 40.13°N, 74.51°WFruitland — 36.29°N, 108.23°WFruitland — 36.49°N, 108.49°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.26°WFruitland — 36.99°N, 108.17°WFruitland — 36.10°N, 108.08°WFruitland — 36.12°N, 107.78°WFruitland — 36.29°N, 108.55°WFruitland — 36.31°N, 108.08°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WOldman — 49.78°N, 113.32°WOldman — 50.73°N, 111.80°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WFerris — 41.95°N, 106.89°WTudela — 42.07°N, 1.61°WTudela — 42.12°N, 1.51°W

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The named rock units Testudines has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,170 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,704 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Testudines and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

3,332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,144 sites for Testudines, and this reads 240 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

2,626 references

Each of the 9,209 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. 2,614 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Testudines

Credit
Ernst Haeckel
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Chelonia mydas · smf:63250

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itTestudinata through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Latreille 1800)