Erymnochelys

Erymnochelys

belgianchocolate · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
PodocnemididaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, carnivorePBDB, for Podocnemididae
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Podocnemididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Podocnemididae

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–3.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.1–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka92 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Erymnochelys on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

10 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

4 formations

Nawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EInbeceten — 15.05°N, 6.03°EMaevarano — 15.90°S, 46.58°ELokone Sandstone — 2.22°N, 35.57°E

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The named rock units Erymnochelys 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.

Erymnochelys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Erymnochelys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

236 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Erymnochelys, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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 Erymnochelys

Credit
belgianchocolate
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Erymnochelys 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 itPodocnemididae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baur 1888