Anosteirinae

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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 8.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Anosteirinae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Anosteirinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anosteirinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anosteirinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Brontotheriidae4 sites
- Agriochoerus antiquus2 sites
- Alligator prenasalis2 sites
- Brachyrhynchocyon dodgei2 sites
- Emydidae2 sites
- Eomyidae2 sites
- Eusmilus2 sites
- Hyaenodon horridus2 sites
- Hypertragulidae2 sites
- Hyracodon priscidens2 sites
- Leptictidae2 sites
- Mesohippus bairdi2 sites
- Perchoerus minor2 sites
- Pseudoprotoceras longinaris2 sites
- Subhyracodon mitis2 sites
- Adjidaumo1 site
- Aepinacodon americanus1 site
- Agriochoeridae1 site
- Anthracotheriidae1 site
- Apalone1 site
- Apatemys hendryi1 site
- Archaeotherium coarctatum1 site
- Archaeotherium mortoni1 site
- Auxontodon processus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Anosteirinae, 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
3 references- Testudines2
- Turtles from the middle Eocene (Uintan) of Saskatchewan, Canada1
- Eocene lower vertebrates from Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago1
Each of the 4 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

Picture of Anosteirinae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- 乌拉跨氪
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anosteirinae 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.
Keep going
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. (Lydekker 1889)