Cylindraspis inepta
The saddle-backed Mauritius giant tortoise is an extinct species of giant tortoise in the family Testudinidae. It was endemic to Mauritius. The last records of this tortoise date to the early 18th century.
Hans Gadow · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
- CylindraspisPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, herbivorePBDB, for Testudinidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Testudinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Testudinidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cylindraspis inepta on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Cylindraspis inepta and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cylindraspis inepta and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Allopeas1 site
- Aphanapteryx bonasia1 site
- Bulinus1 site
- Circus maillardi1 site
- Cyclotopsis1 site
- Cylindraspis triserrata1 site
- Foudia rubra1 site
- Fulica newtonii1 site
- Gyraulus1 site
- Hypsipetes olivaceus1 site
- Lalage typica1 site
- Leiolopisma mauritiana1 site
- Leiolopisma telfairii1 site
- Lophopsittacus bensoni1 site
- Lophopsittacus mauritianus1 site
- Melanoides tuberculata1 site
- Neritina1 site
- Nesoenas mayeri1 site
- Omphalotropis1 site
- Otus sauzieri1 site
- Pachystyla bicolor1 site
- Phelsuma1 site
- Phoenicopterus roseus1 site
- Physa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cylindraspis inepta, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cylindraspis inepta
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hans Gadow
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cylindraspis inepta was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCylindraspis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gunther 1873