Chelydropsis murchisoni

No picture of Chelydropsis murchisoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chelydropsis murchisoni itself, so it was not used. 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 Chelydropsis murchisoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChelydropsisPBDB
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 3.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 12.75 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.1 Mya.

Miocene — about 14 of 14 occurrencesMiocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15.98 Mya12.75 Mya20.9 Mya10.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Chelydropsis murchisoni 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

14 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

3 formations

Upper Freshwater Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.15°N, 9.88°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EEibiswald — 46.75°N, 15.51°E

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The named rock units Chelydropsis murchisoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chelydropsis murchisoni and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chelydropsis murchisoni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

247 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Chelydropsis murchisoni, 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

10 references

Each of the 14 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. 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 content0

No picture of Chelydropsis murchisoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chelydropsis murchisoni itself, so it was not used.

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 Chelydropsis murchisoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Chelydropsis murchisoni 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.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bell 1836)