Brodiechelys brodiei

Brodiechelys brodiei

William White · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
BrodiechelysPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira

Time the record covers

At least 6.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous138–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya125.77 Mya137.6 Mya119.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Brodiechelys brodiei 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

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

Vectis — 50.62°N, 1.40°WVectis — 50.66°N, 1.14°WWadhurst Clay — 50.86°N, 0.60°E

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The named rock units Brodiechelys brodiei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Brodiechelys brodiei and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Brodiechelys brodiei and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Brodiechelys brodiei, 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

3 references

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 Brodiechelys brodiei

Source
GBIF
Credit
William White
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itBrodiechelys through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lydekker 1889)