Prochelidella

Prochelidella is an extinct genus of Early to Late Cretaceous chelid turtles from the Bajo Barreal, Candeleros, Cerro Barcino and Portezuelo Formations of the Cañadón Asfalto, Golfo San Jorge and Neuquén Basins in Patagonia, Argentina. It includes the following species:P. argentinae Lapparent de Broin & de la Fuente 2001 P. buitreraensis Maniel et al., 2020 P. cerrobarcinae De la Fuente et al., 2011 P. palomoi Maniel, de la Fuente & Filippi, 2022 P. portezuelae De la Fuente, 2003

No picture of Prochelidella 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 Prochelidella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChelidaePBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Chelidae
Life habit
amphibious, solitaryPBDB, for Chelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Chelidae

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–85 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113.2 Mya83.6 Mya121 Mya65 Mya

13 occurrences of Prochelidella 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

13 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

9 formations

Mata Amarilla — 49.76°S, 71.09°WMata Amarilla — 49.62°S, 71.13°WMata Amarilla — 49.58°S, 69.57°WMata Amarilla — 49.74°S, 71.09°WCerro Barcino — 42.97°S, 69.01°WCerro Barcino — 43.13°S, 68.47°WBajo Barreal — 45.32°S, 69.62°WPortezuelo — 38.90°S, 69.55°WCandeleros — 39.10°S, 68.62°WCerro Fortaleza — 49.58°S, 71.18°WLoncoche — 36.50°S, 69.83°WHuincul — 39.63°S, 69.18°WAnacleto — 37.45°S, 68.94°W

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

Prochelidella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Prochelidella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Prochelidella, 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

9 references

Each of the 13 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

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No picture of Prochelidella 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 Prochelidella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Prochelidella 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.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itChelidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lapparent de Broin and de la Fuente 2001