Egyptemys
No picture of Egyptemys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Egyptemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DermochelyidaePBDB
- Diet
- durophage, piscivorePBDB, for Dermochelyidae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Dermochelyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Dermochelyidae
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
6 occurrences of Egyptemys on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Lillebaelt Clay Formation1
- Fur Formation1
- Astoria Formation1
- Samlat Formation1
- Qasr el-Sagha Formation1
- Chandler Bridge Formation1
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The named rock units Egyptemys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Egyptemys and its relatives
EoceneWhere Egyptemys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Abdounia1 site
- Aetobatus1 site
- Aetobatus irregularis1 site
- Agorophiidae1 site
- Agorophius1 site
- Anoxypristis mucrodens1 site
- Ariidae1 site
- Brachycarcharias twiggsensis1 site
- Carcharhinus frequens1 site
- Carcharhinus gibbesii1 site
- Carcharhinus leucas1 site
- Carolinochelys1 site
- Chascacocolius oscitans1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Cordichelys antiqua1 site
- Cylindracanthus1 site
- Dorudon atrox1 site
- Eocypselus vincenti1 site
- Eoglaucidium1 site
- Eurhinodelphinidae1 site
- Eusuchia1 site
- Galeocerdo1 site
- Galeocerdo latidens1 site
- Galeocerdo mayumbensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Egyptemys, 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
5 references- Eocene leatherback turtle material of the genus Egyptemys (Testudines: Dermochelyidae) from Denmark2
- Multispecies leatherback turtle assemblage from the Oligocene Chandler Bridge and Ashley formations of South Carolina, USA1
- Marine vertebrate fauna from the late Eocene Samlat Formation of Ad-Dakhla, southwestern Morocco1
- Evolution and Phylogeny of Leatherback Turtles (Dermochelyidae), with Descriptions of New Fossil Taxa1
- A new turtle from the marine Miocene of Oregon1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Egyptemys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Egyptemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Egyptemys 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDermochelyidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood et al. 1996