Palatochelydia

No picture of Palatochelydia 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 Palatochelydia, 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 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 1 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 47 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Palatochelydia 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

47 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

8 formations

Pinjor — 30.73°N, 76.78°EPinjor — 30.77°N, 76.88°EPinjor — 28.82°N, 79.09°EPinjor — 27.56°N, 80.73°EPiram Conglomerate — 21.62°N, 72.38°ETatrot — 30.46°N, 77.40°ETatrot — 32.01°N, 76.17°ESetibaru — 33.33°N, 129.72°EYunoki — 33.30°N, 129.63°EKadonosawa — 39.35°N, 140.77°ETatrot — 32.91°N, 73.30°E

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The named rock units Palatochelydia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palatochelydia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Palatochelydia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Palatochelydia, 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

15 references

Each of the 47 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. 3 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Palatochelydia 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.

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What may have been alongside itGeoemydidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Joyce and Lyson 2010