Chrysemys

Chrysemys is a genus of turtles in the family Emydidae. They are found throughout most of North America. The species in the genus include the painted and the southern painted turtles.

Chrysemys

Kobie Mercury-Clarke · CC BY 2.0 · 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
Also called
painted turtlePBDB
Sits inside
DeirochelyinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Emydidae
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Emydidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Emydidae

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 38 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Chrysemys on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

38 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

11 formations

Valentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.60°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WSilver Bluff — 32.56°N, 80.29°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WOld Church — 37.63°N, 77.13°WChilikty — 46.65°N, 57.30°ELondon Clay — 51.41°N, 0.91°ESt. Marys — 38.35°N, 76.39°W

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The named rock units Chrysemys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chrysemys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chrysemys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,411 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Chrysemys, 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

26 references

Each of the 38 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. 14 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 content2

Picture of Chrysemys

Credit
Kobie Mercury-Clarke
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Sequential Section Scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Chrysemys marginata · MCZ:SC:1464

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itDeirochelyinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1844