Polysternon provinciale
No picture of Polysternon provinciale was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Polysternon provinciale itself, so it was not used. 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 Polysternon provinciale, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolysternonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Pleurodira
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Pleurodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Pleurodira
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Polysternon provinciale on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Polysternon provinciale and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Polysternon provinciale and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Eusuchia2 sites
- Lepisosteus2 sites
- Massaliasuchus affuvelensis2 sites
- Varanoidea2 sites
- Albanerpetontidae1 site
- Anura1 site
- Arcovenator1 site
- Charophyta1 site
- Corbicula1 site
- Dortokidae1 site
- Dromaeosauridae1 site
- Elochelys perfecta1 site
- Herensugea1 site
- Iguanomorpha1 site
- Monstersauria1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Palaeobatrachidae1 site
- Peirosauridae1 site
- Rhabdodon priscus1 site
- Shinisauridae1 site
- Solemys vermiculata1 site
- Sparidae1 site
- Squamata1 site
- Struthiosaurus languedocensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Polysternon provinciale, 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
4 references- Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae2
- Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France2
- An early Campanian vertebrate fauna from the Villeveyrac Basin (Hérault, southern France)1
- Notice sur les reptiles fossiles des dépôts fluvio-lacustres crétacés du bassin à lignite de Fuveau [Notice on the fossil reptiles from the Cretaceous fluvio-lacustrine deposits of the lignitic Fuveau Basin]1
Each of the 6 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 Polysternon provinciale was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Polysternon provinciale itself, so it was not used.
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 Polysternon provinciale, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polysternon provinciale was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itPolysternon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matheron 1869)