Trionyx singularis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrionyxPBDB
- 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 most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Trionyx singularis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
7 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Trionyx singularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trionyx singularis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Trionyx singularis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Compsemys victa3 sites
- Baenidae2 sites
- Cryptodira2 sites
- Trionychidae2 sites
- Arctocyon ferox1 site
- Baenodda1 site
- Hoplochelys crassa1 site
- Macrobaenidae1 site
- Palatobaena cohen1 site
- Plastomenidae1 site
- Plesiobaena1 site
- Trionychinae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Trionyx singularis, 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- Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado5
- The fossil turtles of North America1
- Descriptions of seven new species of turtles from the Tertiary of the United States1
Each of the 7 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
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Trionyx singularis · amnh:farb:1028
No picture of Trionyx singularis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Trionyx singularis itself, so it was not used.
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 Trionyx singularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTrionyx through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hay 1907)