Gistortia
No picture of Gistortia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gistortia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 61.66 Mya and 56 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Gistortia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Gistortia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gistortia and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Gistortia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Acleistochelys maliensis1 site
- Arcidae1 site
- Athleta1 site
- Cerithioidea1 site
- Cornulina1 site
- Crocodylomorpha1 site
- Cubitostrea multicostata1 site
- Deltoidonautilus1 site
- Eocypraeidae1 site
- Eotorpedo hilgendorfi1 site
- Fabaceae1 site
- Heligmotoma (Douvilletoma) oluwolei1 site
- Lavocatodus giganteus1 site
- Linthia sudanensis1 site
- Lucinidae1 site
- Nautiloidea indet.1 site
- Ostreida1 site
- Plesiolampas1 site
- Plicatula1 site
- Pseudoliva1 site
- Raetomya schweinfurthi1 site
- Stromboidea1 site
- Thalassinoides1 site
- Tibia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gistortia, 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
1 reference- Acleistochelys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Bothremydidae) from the Paleocene of Mali1
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Gistortia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gistortia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Gistortia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vredenburg 1927