Lophochelys

A picture published with the record for Lophochelys. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophochelyinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Chelonioidea

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 16 of 17 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesPaleocene90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83.6 Mya66 Mya90.4 Mya61.1 Mya

17 occurrences of Lophochelys 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

17 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

7 formations

Dinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.76°WBearpaw Shale — 49.45°N, 112.84°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WMooreville Chalk — 32.87°N, 88.04°WBrightseat — 38.89°N, 76.85°WFox Hills — 46.38°N, 99.59°W

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The named rock units Lophochelys 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.

Lophochelys and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Lophochelys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Lophochelys, 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

6 references

Each of the 17 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 content1

Picture of Lophochelys

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lophochelys was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itLophochelyinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zangerl 1953