Allaeochelys

Allaeochelys is an extinct genus of carettochelyid turtle, known from the Eocene to Miocene of Europe, Asia, North America and Africa.

Allaeochelys

Tiia Monto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarettochelyidaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, omnivorePBDB, for Carettochelyidae
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Carettochelyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Carettochelyidae

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 60 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 53 of 60 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 60 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 60 occurrencesMiocene63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 8 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59.24 Mya20.45 Mya62.6 Mya15.1 Mya

60 occurrences of Allaeochelys on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

60 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

17 formations

Pondaung — 21.97°N, 94.47°EPondaung — 21.90°N, 94.57°EPondaung — 21.62°N, 94.85°EPondaung — 21.92°N, 94.53°EPondaung — 21.75°N, 94.68°EEntrala — 41.67°N, 4.05°WEntrala — 41.43°N, 5.57°WEntrala — 41.40°N, 5.67°WEntrala — 41.59°N, 5.69°WCorrales — 41.37°N, 5.75°WCorrales — 41.37°N, 5.72°WCorrales — 41.32°N, 5.71°WSobrarbe — 42.30°N, 0.16°ESobrarbe — 42.34°N, 0.14°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.73°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EMoghara — 30.40°N, 28.78°EMoghara — 30.30°N, 30.00°ELaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WMaradah — 28.00°N, 20.50°EPiney Point — 37.78°N, 77.41°WSaint-Papoul — 43.33°N, 2.04°EHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WJibou — 47.22°N, 22.80°ESables a Unios et Teredines — 49.00°N, 3.88°EBrussels — 50.92°N, 4.48°ECastrais — 46.61°N, 2.24°EMolasse de Carcassonne — 43.34°N, 2.03°E

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The named rock units Allaeochelys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Allaeochelys and its relatives

Eocene

Where Allaeochelys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

489 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Allaeochelys, 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

25 references

Each of the 60 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. 13 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 content2

Picture of Allaeochelys

Credit
Tiia Monto
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Allaeochelys crassesculpta · smf:me:611

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCarettochelyidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Noulet 1867