Helochelys danubina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelochelysPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Helochelys danubina on record, most of them in the Late 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
8 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
2 formations
- West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation · Chalk Group1
- Grünsandstein Formation1
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The named rock units Helochelys danubina 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.
Helochelys danubina and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Helochelys danubina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Simoliophis rochebrunei6 sites
- Carcharodontosauridae5 sites
- Dromaeosauridae5 sites
- Cenocarcharias tenuiplicatus4 sites
- Haimirichia amonensis4 sites
- Hybodus4 sites
- Iguanodontoidea4 sites
- Protolamna4 sites
- Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi4 sites
- Ptychotrygon4 sites
- Ptychotrygonoides pouiti4 sites
- Scapanorhynchus minimus4 sites
- Squalicorax4 sites
- Tribodus morlati4 sites
- Truyolsodontos magnus4 sites
- Turoniabatis cappettai4 sites
- Archaeolamna3 sites
- Cantioscyllium3 sites
- Chiloscyllium3 sites
- Cretodus semiplicatus3 sites
- Crocodyliformes3 sites
- Hamrabatis bernardezi3 sites
- Heterodontus paucicarinatus3 sites
- Macronaria3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Helochelys danubina, 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
2 references- A Review of the Fossil Record of Basal Mesozoic Turtles7
- The skull of the solemydid turtle Helochelydra nopcsai from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight (UK) and a review of Solemydidae1
Each of the 8 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 Helochelys danubina was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia, Wikidata and 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 Helochelys danubina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helochelys danubina 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 itHelochelys through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Meyer 1854