Dorsetochelys

Dorsetochelys is an extinct genus of turtle from the Early Cretaceous of southern England and northwestern Germany.

Dorsetochelys

Geni · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
PleurosternidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 5.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 139.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 137.05 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 8 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 8 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145.06 Mya139.1 Mya155.3 Mya136.6 Mya

8 occurrences of Dorsetochelys on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

8 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

1 formation

Morrison — 38.54°N, 105.22°WMorrison — 41.91°N, 105.97°W

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The named rock units Dorsetochelys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dorsetochelys and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Dorsetochelys and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Dorsetochelys, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 Dorsetochelys

Credit
Geni
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dorsetochelys 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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What may have been alongside itPleurosternidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Evans and Kemp 1976