Pseudemys caelata
No picture of Pseudemys caelata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pseudemys caelata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudemysPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Emydidae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Emydidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Emydidae
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pseudemys caelata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Alachua Formation2
- St Marys Formation · Chesapeake Group1
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The named rock units Pseudemys caelata 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.
Pseudemys caelata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pseudemys caelata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Cormohipparion plicatile3 sites
- Aepycamelus major2 sites
- Cormohipparion ingenuum2 sites
- Crotalidae2 sites
- Deirochelys2 sites
- Deirochelys carri2 sites
- Epicyon haydeni2 sites
- Hemiauchenia minima2 sites
- Nannippus westoni2 sites
- Protohippus gidleyi2 sites
- Tapirus webbi2 sites
- Teleoceras proterum2 sites
- Yumaceras hamiltoni2 sites
- Abelmoschomys simpsoni1 site
- Accipitridae1 site
- Alligator1 site
- Amebelodon1 site
- Amia calva1 site
- Anatinae1 site
- Anhinga grandis1 site
- Anserinae1 site
- Antilocaprinae1 site
- Apalone amorense1 site
- Apalone ferox1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pseudemys caelata, 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
3 references- The status of the Pliocene turtles Pseudemys caelata Hay and Chrysemys carri Rose and Weaver2
- Miocene and Pliocene Chelonians from the Calvert Cliffs and Nearby Regions1
- The fossil turtles of North America1
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 content0
No picture of Pseudemys caelata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pseudemys caelata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudemys caelata 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 itPseudemys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hay 1908)