Pelusios adansonii
Adanson's mud turtle is a species of turtle in the family Pelomedusidae. The species is endemic to north-central Africa.
G.H.Ford · Public Domain · 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
- Adansons mud turtlePBDB
- Sits inside
- PelusiosPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pelomedusidae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Pelomedusidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Pelomedusidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pelusios adansonii on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
4 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Pelusios adansonii and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Pelusios adansonii and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Aspatharia3 sites
- Clarias3 sites
- Crocodylus niloticus3 sites
- Hippopotamus amphibius3 sites
- Lates niloticus3 sites
- Mutela3 sites
- Redunca redunca3 sites
- Tilapinii indet.3 sites
- Trionychidae3 sites
- Cyprinidae2 sites
- Heterotis2 sites
- Homo sapiens2 sites
- Melanoides tuberculata2 sites
- Neognathae2 sites
- Polypterus2 sites
- Python sebae2 sites
- Struthio camelus2 sites
- Thryonomys swinderianus2 sites
- Auchenoglanis1 site
- Bagridae1 site
- Bos taurus1 site
- Bufonidae1 site
- Canis aureus1 site
- Cyclanorbis senegalensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pelusios adansonii, 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- Lakeside cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 years of Holocene population and environmental change3
- Cheloniens1
Each of the 4 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
Picture of Pelusios adansonii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- G.H.Ford
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pelusios adansonii was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPelusios through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schweigger 1812