Pelorochelon eocaenica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PelorochelonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, herbivorePBDB, for Testudinidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Testudinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Testudinidae
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
10 occurrences of Pelorochelon eocaenica 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
10 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pelorochelon eocaenica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pelorochelon eocaenica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pelorochelon eocaenica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
347 taxa- Neochelys eocaenica5 sites
- Allaeochelys4 sites
- Aumelasia menieli4 sites
- Cuisitherium lydekkeri4 sites
- Diacodexis varleti4 sites
- Eurodexis russelli4 sites
- Matthodon menui4 sites
- Protodichobune oweni4 sites
- Trionyx silvestris4 sites
- Axestemys vittata3 sites
- Euroemys3 sites
- Eurohippus parvulus3 sites
- Eusuchia3 sites
- Palaeochelys3 sites
- Saniwa3 sites
- Calamagras gallicus2 sites
- Comptonia2 sites
- Diplocynodon2 sites
- Dunnophis matronensis2 sites
- Geiseltaliellus longicaudus2 sites
- Helodermatidae2 sites
- Heterohyus2 sites
- Leptotheridium traguloides2 sites
- Necrosaurus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Pelorochelon eocaenica, 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
2 references- Taxonomy, systematics, and diversity of the European oldest testudinids9
- Die Schildkröten aus den Mitteleozänen Sedimenten des Eckfelder Maares mit taxonomischen Notizen zu Testudo eocaenica Hummel, 1935 (Mitteleozän, Deutschland, Rheinland-Pfalz, Vulkaneifel)1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Pelorochelon eocaenica 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 Pelorochelon eocaenica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pelorochelon eocaenica 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 itPelorochelon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hummel 1935)