Chelydropsis

Chelydropsis is an extinct genus in the family of pan-chelydrids, relatives of modern snapping turtles, that lived from the Eocene to the Pliocene in Asia and Europe.

Chelydropsis

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
ChelydridaePBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Chelydridae
Life habit
aquatic, solitaryPBDB, for Chelydridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Chelydridae

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 66 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 66 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 48 of 66 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 66 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 66 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 6 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–8.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.9–7.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.3–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–4.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.1–2.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.5–875 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41.03 Mya3.55 Mya49 Mya875 ka

66 occurrences of Chelydropsis 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

66 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

Tudela — 42.06°N, 1.55°WTudela — 42.07°N, 1.61°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.15°N, 9.88°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EKuyal'nikian — 46.46°N, 30.73°EKoryakovskaya — 52.28°N, 76.99°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°EEibiswald — 46.75°N, 15.51°EEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°E

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The named rock units Chelydropsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chelydropsis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chelydropsis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

956 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Chelydropsis, 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

28 references

Each of the 66 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. 16 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 Chelydropsis

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chelydropsis 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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itChelydridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peters 1868