Floridemys nancei
H. Bystra · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- FloridemysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, herbivorePBDB, for Testudinidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Testudinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Testudinidae
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Floridemys nancei on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- St. Marys Formation · Chesapeake Group1
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The named rock units Floridemys nancei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Floridemys nancei and its relatives
MioceneWhere Floridemys nancei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Apalone ferox1 site
- Callinectes sapidus1 site
- Cancer borealis1 site
- Cancer nancei1 site
- Chrysemys isoni1 site
- Kinosternidae1 site
- Lepidochelys kempii1 site
- Lophocetus calvertensis1 site
- Mactrodesma subponderosa1 site
- Necronectes drydeni1 site
- Pinnotheres prochowniki1 site
- Pomatodelphis santamaria1 site
- Procolpochelys grandaeva1 site
- Psephophorus polygonus1 site
- Rachycentron stremphaencus1 site
- Trachemys inflata1 site
- Trachyaspis lardyi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Floridemys nancei, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Floridemys nancei
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- H. Bystra
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFloridemys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weems 2023