Chelus colombiana

Chelus colombiana

Royo, J. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
Chelus colombianaPBDB
Sits inside
ChelusPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Chelidae
Life habit
amphibious, solitaryPBDB, for Chelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Chelidae

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 17 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences9.6–9.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.1–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–5.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.9–5.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.2–4.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.6–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.7–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya11.63 Mya20.9 Mya2.1 Mya

19 occurrences of Chelus colombiana on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

19 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

Solimões — 8.82°S, 67.58°WSolimões — 10.98°S, 68.73°WSolimões — 9.13°S, 68.68°WSolimões — 8.87°S, 67.78°WSolimões — 7.85°S, 72.67°WSolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WVillavieja — 3.22°N, 75.17°WVillavieja — 3.78°N, 75.18°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WUrumaco — 11.22°N, 70.24°WPebas — 3.74°S, 73.25°WPebas — 4.01°S, 73.15°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.07°WBarzaloza — 4.41°N, 74.70°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.32°WIpururo — 10.56°S, 73.13°W

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The named rock units Chelus colombiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chelus colombiana and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chelus colombiana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Chelus colombiana, 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

9 references

Each of the 19 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 Chelus colombiana

Source
GBIF
Credit
Royo, J.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chelus colombiana 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 itChelus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1976