Geoclemys

Geoclemys is a genus of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The genus contains a single living species, the black pond turtle. Two fossil species are also known from the Miocene of Japan: Geoclemys matuuraensis and Geoclemys yudaensis.

Geoclemys

Rohit Naniwadekar · 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
PalatochelydiaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira

Time the record covers

At least 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.6–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.2–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.1–274 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11.63 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya274 ka

10 occurrences of Geoclemys on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

6 formations

Pinjor — 30.77°N, 76.88°EPinjor — 28.82°N, 79.09°EPinjor — 30.73°N, 76.78°ETatrot — 30.46°N, 77.40°ETatrot — 32.01°N, 76.17°ESetibaru — 33.33°N, 129.72°EYunoki — 33.30°N, 129.63°EKadonosawa — 39.35°N, 140.77°E

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The named rock units Geoclemys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Geoclemys and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Geoclemys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Geoclemys, 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 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 Geoclemys

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

No 3D scan of Geoclemys 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 itPalatochelydia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1855