Batagur dhongoka
The three-striped roofed turtle is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is endemic to South Asia.

Hari arcw · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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- Also called
- Three-striped roofed turtlePBDB
- Sits inside
- BatagurPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Batagur dhongoka on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene36%
- Pleistocene64%
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
1 formation
- Pinjor Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Batagur dhongoka has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Batagur dhongoka and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Batagur dhongoka and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Batagur baska1 site
- Batagur kachuga1 site
- Batagurinae1 site
- Cachuga tectum1 site
- Emyda vittata1 site
- Enhydriodon falconeri1 site
- Enhydriodon sivalensis1 site
- Gavialis browni1 site
- Gavialis gangeticus1 site
- Geoclemys hamiltonii1 site
- Hardella thurjii1 site
- Megalochelys sivalensis1 site
- Melanochelys sivalensis1 site
- Melanochelys tapani1 site
- Melanochelys trijuga1 site
- Omegachelys sahnii1 site
- Palatochelydia1 site
- Pangshura1 site
- Rhamphosuchus crassidens1 site
- Testudo atlas1 site
- Testudo cautleyi1 site
- Varanus sivalensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Batagur dhongoka, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content2
Picture of Batagur dhongoka
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hari arcw
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Batagur dhongoka · smf:49717
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBatagur through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1834)