Neochelys zamorensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeochelysPBDB
- 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 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Neochelys zamorensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Neochelys zamorensis 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.
Neochelys zamorensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Neochelys zamorensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Allaeochelys1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Diplocynodon1 site
- Eusuchia1 site
- Neochelys salmanticensis1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Trionychidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Neochelys zamorensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Shell anatomy and intraspecific variability of the Spanish Lutetian podocnemidid turtle Neochelys zamorensis4
- Neochelys sp. (Chelonii, Erymnochelyinae), from Silveirinha, early Eocene, Portugal2
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Neochelys zamorensis 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 Neochelys zamorensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neochelys zamorensis 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 itNeochelys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jimenez-Fuentes 1992