Hylaeochelys belli
No picture of Hylaeochelys belli 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 Hylaeochelys belli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HylaeochelysPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Hylaeochelys belli 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
8 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation · Wealden Group5
- Wadhurst Clay Formation · Wealden Group2
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Hylaeochelys belli 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.
Hylaeochelys belli and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Hylaeochelys belli and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Sauropoda2 sites
- Stegosauria2 sites
- Agathoxylon1 site
- Albanerpetontidae1 site
- Amiiformes1 site
- Ammocycloloculina sp.1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Anura1 site
- Atoposauridae1 site
- Avialae1 site
- Baryonychinae1 site
- Bernissartiidae1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Camptosauridae1 site
- Caturidae1 site
- Caudata1 site
- Chelone costata1 site
- Clavator1 site
- Crocodylomorpha1 site
- Cteniogenys1 site
- Cypridea1 site
- Dacentrurus1 site
- Deltapodus1 site
- Dryolestidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hylaeochelys belli, 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
5 references- Turtles3
- Part I. A monograph on the fossil chelonian reptiles of the Wealden clays and Purbeck limestones2
- Vertebrate paleobiodiversity of the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Angeac-Charente Lagerstätte (southwestern France): implications for continental faunal turnover at the J/K boundary1
- High diversity of pancryptodiran turtles in the Lower Cretaceous of Europe1
- Lydekker, 18891
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
Media content0
No picture of Hylaeochelys belli 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 Hylaeochelys belli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hylaeochelys belli 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHylaeochelys through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mantell 1844)