Carettochelyidae

Carettochelyidae is a family of cryptodiran turtles belonging to the Trionychia. It contains only a single living species, the pig-nosed turtle native to New Guinea and Northern Australia. Stem-group carettochelyids are known from the Cretaceous of Asia, with the family being widely distributed across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa during much of the Cenozoic.

Carettochelyidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrionychiaPBDB
Diet
herbivore, omnivorePBDB
Life habit
aquaticPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 153 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 153 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 153 occurrencesEocene — about 118 of 153 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 153 occurrencesMiocene — about 13 of 153 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 153 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 153 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–51 Mya — about 11 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 20 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 33 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 41 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 11 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence121.4 Mya129 ka128 Mya0 Mya

153 occurrences of Carettochelyidae 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

153 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

49 formations

Uinta — 40.06°N, 109.62°WUinta — 40.15°N, 109.62°WUinta — 40.08°N, 109.27°WUinta — 40.20°N, 110.44°WUinta — 40.15°N, 109.75°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°WPondaung — 21.97°N, 94.47°EPondaung — 21.90°N, 94.57°EPondaung — 21.62°N, 94.85°EPondaung — 21.92°N, 94.53°EPondaung — 21.75°N, 94.68°EBridger — 42.37°N, 108.91°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EEntrala — 41.67°N, 4.05°WEntrala — 41.43°N, 5.57°WEntrala — 41.40°N, 5.67°WEntrala — 41.59°N, 5.69°WCorrales — 41.37°N, 5.75°WCorrales — 41.37°N, 5.72°WCorrales — 41.32°N, 5.71°WKhodzhakul — 40.60°N, 71.83°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EKhok Kruat — 19.93°N, 101.95°EKhok Kruat — 14.87°N, 102.73°EKhok Kruat — 15.23°N, 104.86°ESao Khua — 16.80°N, 103.68°ESao Khua — 17.10°N, 102.49°EChadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WBaynshire — 44.45°N, 107.38°EBaynshire — 43.14°N, 107.52°EGrès supérieurs — 16.40°N, 105.65°EGrès supérieurs — 16.97°N, 105.98°EYouganwo — 21.70°N, 110.88°ESobrarbe — 42.30°N, 0.16°ESobrarbe — 42.34°N, 0.14°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.73°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EXinlong — 22.64°N, 107.91°EXinlong — 22.37°N, 107.99°EMoghara — 30.40°N, 28.78°EMoghara — 30.30°N, 30.00°EWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°E"Brian Head" — 37.80°N, 111.50°WKuldana — 33.62°N, 71.92°E

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The named rock units Carettochelyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carettochelyidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Carettochelyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,337 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 143 sites for Carettochelyidae, 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

65 references

Each of the 153 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. 53 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 content1

Picture of Carettochelyidae

Credit
Bjoertvedt
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carettochelyidae 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.

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.

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