Helochelydra nopcsai
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelochelydraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At least 42 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
7 occurrences of Helochelydra nopcsai on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Pinilla de los Moros Formation · Urbión Group2
- Vitoria Formation1
- El Castellar Formation1
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The named rock units Helochelydra nopcsai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Helochelydra nopcsai and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Helochelydra nopcsai and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Coelurosauria3 sites
- Dromaeosauridae3 sites
- Ornithomimosauria3 sites
- Theropoda3 sites
- Albanerpetontidae2 sites
- Baryonyx2 sites
- Hypsilophodontidae2 sites
- Mesoeucrocodylia2 sites
- Abelisauridae1 site
- Acynodon iberoccitanus1 site
- Allodaposuchus1 site
- Amphisbaenia1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Anura1 site
- Arcovenator1 site
- Aristosuchus pusillus1 site
- Atoposauridae1 site
- Atractosteus1 site
- Azhdarcho1 site
- Balveherpeton hoennetalensis1 site
- Beckumia sinemeckelia1 site
- Bernissartiidae1 site
- Bructerodon alatus1 site
- Calamosaurus foxi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Helochelydra nopcsai, 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
4 references- A Review of the Fossil Record of Basal Mesozoic Turtles4
- The helochelydrid turtle Helochelydra nopcsai from the Early Cretaceous (late Barremian – early Aptian) fissure fills of Balve, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, including a large sample of granicones1
- The skull of the solemydid turtle Helochelydra nopcsai from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight (UK) and a review of Solemydidae1
- Turtles from the Upper Cretaceous of Lano (Iberian Peninsula)1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Helochelydra nopcsai was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Helochelydra nopcsai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helochelydra nopcsai 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 itHelochelydra through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1999