Kenyemys
No picture of Kenyemys 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 Kenyemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PodocnemididaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, carnivorePBDB, for Podocnemididae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Podocnemididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Podocnemididae
Time the record covers
At most 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Kenyemys on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 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
- Nawata Formation1
- Nachukui Formation1
- Lothagam 1 Formation · Lothagam Group1
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The named rock units Kenyemys 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.
Kenyemys and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Kenyemys and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
157 taxa- Anancus kenyensis3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Brachypotherium3 sites
- Ceratotherium3 sites
- Crocodylus3 sites
- Deinotherium bozasi3 sites
- Euthecodon brumpti3 sites
- Gazella3 sites
- Geochelone3 sites
- Nyanzachoerus3 sites
- Polypterus3 sites
- Stegotetrabelodon orbus3 sites
- Struthio3 sites
- Turkanemys pattersoni3 sites
- Aepyceros premelampus2 sites
- Alcelaphini2 sites
- Alestes sp.2 sites
- Anatidae2 sites
- Archaeopotamus harvardi2 sites
- Bagridae2 sites
- Bagrus2 sites
- Bovini2 sites
- Cercopithecidae2 sites
- Characidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Kenyemys, 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
3 references- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa2
- Early Pliocene Tetrapod Remains from Kanapoi, Lake Turkana Basin, Kenya1
- Kenyemys williamsi, a fossil pelomedusid turtle from the Pliocene of Kenya1
Each of the 4 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 Kenyemys 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 Kenyemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kenyemys 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPodocnemididae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1983