Taphrosphyini

Taphrosphyini

Apokryltaros · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BothremydidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Pleurodira
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Pleurodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Pleurodira

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 21 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 31 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 31 occurrencesEocene84–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72.2 Mya56 Mya84.3 Mya47.4 Mya

31 occurrences of Taphrosphyini 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

31 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

7 formations

Aguja — 29.36°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.20°N, 103.60°WAguja — 29.28°N, 103.56°WGafsa Phosphates — 34.33°N, 8.41°ETeberemt — 16.67°N, 0.50°EAdaffa — 28.13°N, 35.28°ERhems — 33.67°N, 79.83°WWilliamsburg — 33.43°N, 80.10°WFarin-Doutchi — 15.33°N, 5.75°E

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The named rock units Taphrosphyini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taphrosphyini and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

157 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Taphrosphyini, 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

11 references

Each of the 31 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 content1

Picture of Taphrosphyini

Credit
Apokryltaros
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itBothremydidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaffney et al. 2006