Tropidemys

No picture of Tropidemys 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 Tropidemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 23 of 27 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous156–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 4 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 5 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 5 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences152.21 Mya121.4 Mya155.5 Mya118.9 Mya

27 occurrences of Tropidemys on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

27 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

9 formations

Reuchenette — 47.22°N, 7.55°EReuchenette — 47.42°N, 7.07°EKimmeridge Clay — 50.61°N, 2.45°WVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°EMont-Lambert — 50.77°N, 1.63°EVillar del Arzobispo — 40.66°N, 0.88°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.35°WSobral — 39.11°N, 9.39°WSüntel — 52.29°N, 8.71°EMarnes de Bléville — 49.52°N, 0.10°E

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The named rock units Tropidemys 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.

Tropidemys and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Tropidemys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

157 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Tropidemys, 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

14 references

Each of the 27 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Tropidemys 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 Tropidemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tropidemys was found in Sketchfab.

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.

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What may have been alongside itThalassochelydia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rütimeyer 1873