Tsaotanemys
No picture of Tsaotanemys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Tsaotanemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LindholmemydidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Tsaotanemys 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Tsaotanemys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tsaotanemys and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tsaotanemys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Amia efremovi1 site
- Amphichelydia1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Ceratopsia1 site
- Chiayusuchus cingulatus1 site
- Hangaiemys acutus1 site
- Hangaiemys kansuensis1 site
- Hangaiemys latilimbata1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
- Sinochelys applanata1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tsaotanemys, 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
2 references- VI. Vertebrate Palaeontology 6. Fossil reptiles from Mongolia and Kansu5
- Chelonians from the Upper Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Tsaotanemys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Tsaotanemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tsaotanemys 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 itLindholmemydidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bohlin 1953