Rafetoides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrionychiniPBDB
- Diet
- piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Trionychidae
- Life habit
- aquatic, solitaryPBDB, for Trionychidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Trionychidae
- Environment
- brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Trionychidae
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
11 occurrences of Rafetoides on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
11 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
6 formations
- Lellinge Greensand Formation3
- Messel Formation1
- Kressenberg Formation1
- København Limestone Formation1
- Eifel Formation1
- Kressenberg Formation1
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The named rock units Rafetoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rafetoides and its relatives
EoceneWhere Rafetoides and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
193 taxa- Borkenia oschkinisi2 sites
- Carettochelyinae indet.2 sites
- Palaeoemys hessiaca2 sites
- Placosauriops weigelti2 sites
- Aceripollis striatus1 site
- Acrostichum1 site
- Agrypnus1 site
- Ailuravus picteti1 site
- Allaeochelys1 site
- Allaeochelys crassesculpta1 site
- Alligator darwini1 site
- Alnipollenites verus1 site
- Alticinae1 site
- Apioninae1 site
- Araceae1 site
- Araliaceoipollenites1 site
- Araucariacites1 site
- Archaeonycteris1 site
- Arecaceae1 site
- Baculatisporites1 site
- Bombacacidites1 site
- Borkenia eckfeldense1 site
- Borkenia philippeni1 site
- Botryococcus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Rafetoides, 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
6 references- Revision of the Paleocene turtles (Reptilia: Testudines) of Denmark4
- Palaeoamyda messeliana nov. comb. (Testudines, Pan-Trionychidae) from the Eocene Messel Pit and Geiseltal localities, Germany, taxonomic and phylogenetic insights2
- Über Reptilienreste aus dem Alttertiär des nördlichen Alpenvorlandes bei Siegsdorf/Oberbayern2
- Kommentierte Checkliste der Wirbeltiere aus dem Eozän des Haunsberges bei Sankt Pankraz (Salzburger Land, Österreich)1
- Die Schildkröten aus den Mitteleozänen Sedimenten des Eckfelder Maares mit taxonomischen Notizen zu Testudo eocaenica Hummel, 1935 (Mitteleozän, Deutschland, Rheinland-Pfalz, Vulkaneifel)1
- New Fossil reptil material (Reptilia: Chelonii, Crocodylia) from the lower Oligocene of Borken (Central Germany: Hesse)1
Each of the 11 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 Rafetoides 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 Rafetoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rafetoides 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTrionychini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Karl 1998