Testudoolithidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 139 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 15 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–132 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences132–127 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–92 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–688 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence145.06 Mya5.333 Mya152 Mya688 ka

15 occurrences of Testudoolithidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

15 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

8 formations

Chichengshan — 29.16°N, 121.00°EChichengshan — 29.15°N, 121.02°EVillanueva de Huerva — 41.34°N, 1.04°WEl Castellar — 40.58°N, 0.69°WLiangtoutang — 29.19°N, 121.10°EFruitland — 36.29°N, 108.55°WOrinda — 37.86°N, 122.21°WLaijia — 29.10°N, 120.76°EEl Horcajo Unit — 42.30°N, 2.44°W

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The named rock units Testudoolithidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Testudoolithidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Testudoolithidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Testudoolithidae, 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 15 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 Testudoolithidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Testudoolithidae, 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 itTestudinata through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hirsch 1996