Sinochelys applanata

No picture of Sinochelys applanata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Sinochelys applanata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SinochelysPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya83.6 Mya145 Mya64 Mya

4 occurrences of Sinochelys applanata on record, most of them in the Early 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

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

2 formations

Mengyin — 35.87°N, 117.95°EMinhe — 39.82°N, 98.30°EMinhe — 41.07°N, 96.87°E

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

Sinochelys applanata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Sinochelys applanata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sinochelys applanata, 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. 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 Sinochelys applanata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Sinochelys applanata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itSinochelys through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wiman 1930