Emys

Emys is a small genus within the family Emydidae. The genus, consisting primarily of freshwater pond turtles, is endemic to Europe. It is the only genus in its subfamily Emydinae outside of North America.

Emys

Vladimir Patras · 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
Also called
pond turtlePBDB
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 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 60.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 131 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 131 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 15 of 131 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 131 occurrencesMiocene — about 12 of 131 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 131 occurrencesPleistocene — about 82 of 131 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–6.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 85 occurrences60.9 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

131 occurrences of Emys 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

131 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

29 formations

Headon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WBridger — 41.32°N, 110.38°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.04°N, 110.23°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WChoremi — 37.38°N, 22.09°EPeace Valley Beds — 34.71°N, 118.81°WHeadon Hill — 50.72°N, 1.59°WChalk Hills — 42.77°N, 115.92°WChalk Hills — 42.73°N, 115.87°WTurlock Lake — 37.06°N, 120.20°WNorwich — 52.63°N, 1.30°EHungry Valley — 34.71°N, 118.81°WCreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WUpper Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°ETulare — 35.89°N, 119.92°WXinyu — 27.80°N, 114.92°EKuyal'nikian — 46.46°N, 30.73°EManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WLeffe — 45.80°N, 9.88°EGlenns Ferry — 42.82°N, 114.94°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.07°N, 107.97°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.88°N, 1.44°EUnterer Travertin — 50.95°N, 11.38°EOberer Travertin — 50.98°N, 11.31°E

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The named rock units Emys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 89 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Emys and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Emys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,333 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 126 sites for Emys, 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

68 references

Each of the 131 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. 56 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 content3

Picture of Emys

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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Emys blandingii · MVZ:Herp:MVZ:Herp:129944

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
zmmu
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CC Attribution
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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 itEmydidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumeril 1806