Podocnemis argentinensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PodocnemisPBDB
Diet
herbivore, carnivorePBDB, for Podocnemididae
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Podocnemididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Podocnemididae

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Paleocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56 Mya33.9 Mya60 Mya22.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Podocnemis argentinensis on record. 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

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

3 formations

Río Loro — 26.60°S, 65.16°WMaiz Gordo — 23.08°S, 65.33°WPuesto La Flecha — 29.36°S, 68.60°W

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The named rock units Podocnemis argentinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Podocnemis argentinensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Podocnemis argentinensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Podocnemis argentinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Podocnemis argentinensis 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPodocnemis through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cattoi and Freiberg 1958