Cheloniinae

Cheloniinae is a subfamily of the sea turtle family Cheloniidae.

Cheloniinae

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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 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 30 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 30 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 30 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 30 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 30 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 30 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

30 occurrences of Cheloniinae on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

30 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

14 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WBone Valley — 27.78°N, 81.94°WKirkwood — 40.17°N, 74.15°WAlai Beds — 42.00°N, 76.00°EMenilite — 49.74°N, 21.61°ENye — 44.54°N, 124.07°WSchöneck — 47.81°N, 12.68°EMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.68°EFur — 56.84°N, 8.96°ELondon Clay — 51.94°N, 1.27°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WGlarner Schiefer — 46.98°N, 9.15°EKaiparowits — 37.30°N, 112.43°WAlzey — 49.79°N, 7.98°E

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The named rock units Cheloniinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cheloniinae and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Cheloniinae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

1,266 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Cheloniinae, 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

27 references

Each of the 30 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. 15 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 content1

Picture of Cheloniinae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oppel 1811