Titanochelon perpiniana
No picture of Titanochelon perpiniana 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 Titanochelon perpiniana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TitanochelonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, herbivorePBDB, for Testudinidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Testudinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Testudinidae
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Titanochelon perpiniana on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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.
Titanochelon perpiniana and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Titanochelon perpiniana and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Apocricetus angustidens2 sites
- Caelopeltis laurenti n. sp.1 site
- Cervus ruscinensis1 site
- Clemmys gaudryi1 site
- Croizetoceros proramosus1 site
- Episoriculus gibberodon1 site
- Hystrix depereti1 site
- Hystrix primigenia1 site
- Mauremys gaudryi1 site
- Paracervulus australis1 site
- Parasorex depereti1 site
- Pliopetaurista1 site
- Prolagus1 site
- Stephanomys1 site
- Testudo1 site
- Trilophomys pyrenaicus1 site
- Trionyx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Titanochelon perpiniana, 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- Note sur la découverte d'une tortue nouvelle "Chelydropsis sp." dans le Pliocene roussillonnais (Ruscinien). [Note on the discovery of a new turtle, "Chelydropsis sp., in the Pliocene from Roussillon, Ruscinian.]1
- Sur la Testudo perpiniana Depéret, gigantesque Tortue du Pliocène moyen de Perpignan [On Testudo perpiniana Depéret, a gigantic turtle from the middle Pliocene of Perpignan]1
- Description géologique du Bassin tertiaire du Roussillon [Geologic description of the Tertiary Roussillon basin]1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Tavernier Amaury
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No picture of Titanochelon perpiniana 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 Titanochelon perpiniana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itTitanochelon through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Depéret 1885)