Mauremys

Mauremys is a genus of turtles in the family Geoemydidae.

Mauremys

Juan R. Lascorz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
Also called
pond turtlePBDB
Sits inside
GeoemydidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 124 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 124 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 70 of 124 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 124 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 124 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 12 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 23 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

124 occurrences of Mauremys on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

124 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

25 formations

Baynunah — 23.10°N, 52.53°EBaynunah — 24.18°N, 52.57°EBaynunah — 24.12°N, 53.01°EBaynunah — 24.08°N, 53.44°EBaynunah — 24.12°N, 52.78°EBaynunah — 24.11°N, 52.44°EBaynunah — 24.00°N, 52.33°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.15°N, 9.88°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.57°N, 12.00°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°ESables de l'Orleanais — 48.05°N, 1.89°ESables de l'Orleanais — 48.06°N, 2.07°ESables de l'Orleanais — 48.06°N, 2.05°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EMarkygialos — 40.40°N, 22.61°EVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°ETomori — 24.79°N, 125.29°ECórcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°WEibiswald — 46.75°N, 15.51°EGünsburger Sandstone — 48.45°N, 10.27°EValldunga — 44.91°N, 8.12°ESables à Gryphaea virleti — 43.61°N, 3.88°ETrilophos — 40.59°N, 22.98°EGonia — 40.37°N, 23.11°EKiyokawa — 35.37°N, 140.01°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°ETrinil — 7.21°S, 112.78°EColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°ELithothamnion Limestone — 41.75°N, 14.04°ETurbuța — 47.11°N, 23.11°EChi-Ting — 22.96°N, 119.78°E

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The named rock units Mauremys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 78 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mauremys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mauremys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,329 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 119 sites for Mauremys, 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

59 references

Each of the 124 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. 47 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Mauremys

Credit
Juan R. Lascorz
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Mauremys caspica · MVZ:Herp:MVZ:Herp:237439

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1870