Palaeochelys

No picture of Palaeochelys 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 Palaeochelys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
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 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 9.67 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 8.725 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 17 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.4–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya9.67 Mya56.9 Mya7.8 Mya

17 occurrences of Palaeochelys 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

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

4 formations

"Caliza de Peguera" — 39.68°N, 2.83°EUlan Gochu — 42.04°N, 111.53°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ESables a Unios et Teredines — 49.00°N, 3.88°E

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The named rock units Palaeochelys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeochelys and its relatives

Eocene

Where Palaeochelys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

197 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Palaeochelys, 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

8 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

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Palaeochelys elongata · amnh:farb:6698

No picture of Palaeochelys 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 Palaeochelys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itGeoemydidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meyer 1847