Hoplochelys

No picture of Hoplochelys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Hoplochelys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PandermatemysPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira

Time the record covers

At least 8.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 63.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 60.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 10 of 39 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 29 of 39 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 7 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 7 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 7 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72.2 Mya63.4 Mya84.1 Mya60.4 Mya

39 occurrences of Hoplochelys 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

39 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

9 formations

Denver — 38.80°N, 104.80°WDenver — 38.86°N, 104.61°WDenver — 38.91°N, 104.53°WNorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.27°WNorth Horn — 39.10°N, 111.80°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.47°N, 101.70°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.47°N, 101.42°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.51°N, 101.34°WAguja — 29.20°N, 103.55°WBlack Peaks — 29.36°N, 103.52°WBlack Peaks — 29.40°N, 103.20°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.00°WNacimiento — 36.07°N, 107.97°WOjo Alamo — 36.29°N, 108.10°WKirtland — 36.51°N, 108.32°W

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The named rock units Hoplochelys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hoplochelys and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Hoplochelys and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Hoplochelys, 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

12 references

Each of the 39 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 content0

No picture of Hoplochelys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Hoplochelys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hoplochelys 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 itPandermatemys through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hay 1908