Yaminuechelys maior
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- YaminuechelysPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Chelidae
- Life habit
- amphibious, solitaryPBDB, for Chelidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Chelidae
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
7 occurrences of Yaminuechelys maior on record. 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- Late Cretaceous29%
- Paleocene71%
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
3 formations
- Salamanca Formation4
- Anacleto Formation · Neuquén Group2
- Roca Formation · Malargüe Group1
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The named rock units Yaminuechelys maior has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Chelidae2 sites
- Salamanchelys palaeocenica2 sites
- Aeolosaurini1 site
- Alfredocarlinia cratera1 site
- Allognathosuchus1 site
- Caimaninae1 site
- Calyptocephalella sabrosa1 site
- Caudiverbera1 site
- Derorhynchus minutus1 site
- Didelphopsis primavera1 site
- Dinilysia1 site
- Escribania chubutensis1 site
- Escribania talonicuspis1 site
- Eutheria1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Gigantobatrachus casamiquelai1 site
- Hydromedusa casamayorensis1 site
- Kawasphenodon peligrensis1 site
- Metatheria1 site
- Monotrematum sudamericanum1 site
- Narambuenatitan palomoi1 site
- Panperissodactyla1 site
- Peligrochelys walshae1 site
- Peligrotherium tropicalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Yaminuechelys maior, 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
4 references- Phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic implications of Yaminuechelys maior (Staesche, 1929) new comb, a large long-necked chelid turtle from the early Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina3
- Long-necked chelid turtles from the Campanian of northwestern Patagonia with comments on K/P survivorship of the genus Yaminuechelys2
- Contribution to the diversity of the fossil record of turtles (Testudinidata) from Chubut province (Argentina) and its significance in understanding the evolution of turtles in southern South America1
- Tortugas continentales (Pleurodira: Chelidae) en la Formación Roca (Daniano), provincia de Río Negro, Argentina [Continental turtles (Pleurodira: Chelidae) from the Roca Formation (Danian), Río Negro Province, Argentina]1
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.
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No picture of Yaminuechelys maior 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 Yaminuechelys maior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Yaminuechelys maior was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Staesche 1929)