Chitra chitra

The Asian narrow-headed softshell turtle is a large species of softshell turtle in the family Trionychidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia. There are two recognized subspecies.

Chitra chitra

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChitraPBDB
Diet
piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Trionychidae
Life habit
aquatic, solitaryPBDB, for Trionychidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trionychidae
Environment
brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Trionychidae

Time the record covers

At most 1.7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.8 Mya and 129 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence1.8–1.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.5–1.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.1–1.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.1–997 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences997 ka–920 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences920 ka–843 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences843 ka–767 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences767 ka–690 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences690 ka–613 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences613 ka–537 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences537 ka–460 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460 ka–383 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences383 ka–307 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307 ka–230 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230 ka–153 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153 ka–77 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.3 Mya0 Mya

1 occurrence of Chitra chitra on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1 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.

Chitra chitra and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Chitra chitra and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chitra chitra, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Chitra chitra

Credit
RatioTile
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Chitra chitra 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itChitra through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nutaphand 1986