Plesiochelys

Searched as Plesiochelys solodurensis langenbergensis n. ssp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Plesiochelys as the accepted name.

Plesiochelys

Jérémy Anquetin​, Sylvie Deschamps, Julien Claude · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
Sits inside
PlesiochelyidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 2.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 152.21 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Plesiochelys on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

1 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

1 formation

Süntel — 51.90°N, 10.50°E

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The named rock units Plesiochelys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Plesiochelys and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Plesiochelys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Plesiochelys, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Plesiochelys

Credit
Jérémy Anquetin​, Sylvie Deschamps, Julien Claude
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Plesiochelys 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 itPlesiochelyidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rütimeyer 1873