Chelonia girundica
No picture of Chelonia girundica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chelonia girundica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheloniaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Chelonioidea
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Chelonia girundica on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Chelonia girundica and its relatives
MioceneWhere Chelonia girundica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Heliconoides inflata2 sites
- Trionyx2 sites
- Vaginella depressa2 sites
- Acteocina lajonkaireana1 site
- Aequipecten1 site
- Agaronia1 site
- Amalda glandiformis1 site
- Ancilla1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Athleta ficulina1 site
- Aturia aturi1 site
- Callista1 site
- Calyptraea (Calyptraea) depressa1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Carinaria tournoueri1 site
- Carinulorbis1 site
- Chama gryphoides1 site
- Chione1 site
- Clavatula1 site
- Conidae1 site
- Contortia1 site
- Corbula carinata1 site
- Cubitostrea digitalina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chelonia girundica, 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
1 reference- Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France2
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Chelonia girundica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chelonia girundica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chelonia girundica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChelonia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Delfortrie 1869