Deirochelyinae

The Deirochelyinae are a subfamily of the Emydidae consisting of species native to North and South America, some of which are frequently kept as pets. As a result of pet trade, one species, the red-eared slider, can now be found in many parts of the world.

Deirochelyinae

André Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
EmydidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Emydidae
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Emydidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Emydidae

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 115 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 115 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 115 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 33 of 115 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 115 occurrencesPleistocene — about 60 of 115 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 61 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

115 occurrences of Deirochelyinae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

115 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

25 formations

Valentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.40°N, 82.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WYorktown — 37.04°N, 76.36°WSilver Bluff — 32.56°N, 80.29°WPeace River — 27.50°N, 82.50°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WOld Church — 37.63°N, 77.13°WSt. Marys — 38.35°N, 76.39°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WChadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WSan Nicolás — 22.25°N, 100.65°WTorreya — 30.50°N, 84.50°WToropi — 28.99°S, 59.10°WLagunilla del Plata — 31.05°S, 62.56°WTouro Passo — 29.67°S, 56.83°WChilikty — 46.65°N, 57.30°EGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WLondon Clay — 51.41°N, 0.91°E

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The named rock units Deirochelyinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 73 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Deirochelyinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Deirochelyinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,010 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Deirochelyinae, 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

70 references

Each of the 115 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. 58 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 Deirochelyinae

Credit
André Karwath aka Aka
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Deirochelyinae 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1857