Caretta

Caretta

Uncredited · 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
Also called
loggerheadPBDB
Sits inside
CarettinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Chelonioidea

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 18 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Caretta on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

18 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

9 formations

Peace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.81°N, 81.91°WGafsa Phosphates — 34.33°N, 8.41°EBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WCitronelle — 30.92°N, 91.55°WQasr el-Sagha — 29.62°N, 30.69°EBone Valley — 27.66°N, 82.08°WEarnley — 50.76°N, 0.86°WLiuchungchi — 23.13°N, 120.45°E

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The named rock units Caretta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caretta and its relatives

Eocene

Where Caretta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

837 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Caretta, 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

14 references

Each of the 18 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. 2 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 content3

Picture of Caretta

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Caretta caretta · zmuc:rept:H002000

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCarettinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1814