Condorchelys antiqua

Condorchelys was a genus of stem turtle from Early Jurassic Cañadon Asfalto Formation of Argentina. Condorchelys represents the oldest Jurassic-aged Turtle from South America, with only one species described, Condorchelys antiqua.

No picture of Condorchelys antiqua 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 Condorchelys antiqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CondorchelysPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic184–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184.7 Mya170.4 Mya

3 occurrences of Condorchelys antiqua on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

3 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

1 formation

Cañadón Asfalto — 43.41°S, 69.23°WCañadón Asfalto — 43.45°S, 69.18°W

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The named rock units Condorchelys antiqua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Condorchelys antiqua and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Condorchelys antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Condorchelys antiqua, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Condorchelys antiqua 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 Condorchelys antiqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Condorchelys antiqua 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sterli 2008