Araripemys barretoi
Ghedoghedo · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- AraripemysPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Pleurodira
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Pleurodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Pleurodira
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Araripemys barretoi on record, most of them in the Early 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
5 occurrences- Early 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
- Romualdo Formation · Santana Group2
- Crato Formation · Santana Group1
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The named rock units Araripemys barretoi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Araripemys barretoi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Araripemys barretoi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Anhanguera piscator1 site
- Anhanguera robustus1 site
- Araripia florifera1 site
- Arthurdactylus conandoylei1 site
- Aves1 site
- Aymberedactylus cearensis1 site
- Barbosania gracilirostris1 site
- Calanguban alamoi1 site
- Caririemys violetae1 site
- Cearachelys placidoi1 site
- Cratoamia gondwanica1 site
- Euraxemys essweini1 site
- Lacusovagus magnificens1 site
- Ludodactylus sibbicki1 site
- Ornithocheiridae1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Pipimorpha1 site
- Primaevorana cratensis1 site
- Santanachelys gaffneyi1 site
- Santanaraptor placidus1 site
- Spinosauridae1 site
- Susisuchus anatoceps1 site
- Tapejaridae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Araripemys barretoi, 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- Skeletal morphology and relationships of the Early Cretaceous side-necked turtle, Araripemys barretoi (Testudines: Pelomedusoides: Araripemydidae), from the Santana Formation of Brazil2
- Rare hatchling specimens of Araripemys Price, 1973 (Testudines, Pelomedusoides, Araripemydidae) from the Crato Formation, Araripe Basin1
- Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae1
- Solhofen-style soft-tissue preservation in a new species of turtle from the Crato Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian) of North-East Brazil1
Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Araripemys barretoi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Araripemys barretoi 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 itAraripemys through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Price 1973