Craspedochelys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesiochelyidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 125.77 Mya.
16 occurrences of Craspedochelys on record, most of them in the Late 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
16 occurrencesThese 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
10 formations
- Reuchenette Formation3
- Marnes à Deltoideum delta Formation2
- Kimmeridge Clay Formation1
- Parnac and Saint-Chamarand Formation1
- Horizon à Lafauriana Formation1
- Virgulien superieur Formation1
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The named rock units Craspedochelys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Craspedochelys and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Craspedochelys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Plesiochelys etalloni2 sites
- Thalassemys hugii2 sites
- Theropoda2 sites
- Tropidemys langii2 sites
- Arcomytilus1 site
- Brachiodontes1 site
- Cryptoclididae1 site
- Deltoideum (Deltoideum) delta1 site
- Globochelus lennieri1 site
- Jurassichelon moseri1 site
- Metriorhynchidae1 site
- Natica1 site
- Nerinea desvoidyi1 site
- Ostreoidea1 site
- Platychelys oberndorferi1 site
- Plesiochelys1 site
- Plesiosauria1 site
- Proexochokefalos bouchardi1 site
- Pterodactyloidea1 site
- Solnhofia parsonsi1 site
- Terebratula1 site
- Thalassemydidae1 site
- Thalassemys bruntrutana1 site
- Trigonia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Craspedochelys, 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- Nouvelles decouvertes de tortues dans le Jurassique Supérieur du Lot (France) et examen du taxon Plesiochelyidae5
- Die Schildkröten aus dem oberen Jura (Malm) der Gegend von Solothurn3
- The first occurrence of “Plesiochelyidae” marine turtles in the early cretaceous of South America1
- The giant pliosaurid that wasn’t—revising the marine reptiles from the Kimmeridgian, Upper Jurassic, of Krzyżanowice, Poland1
- A review of the fossil record of turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia1
- The oldest turtle from Portugal corresponding to the only pre-Kimmeridgian plesiochelyid (basal Eucryptodira) recognized at the generic level1
- Decouverte de Plesiochelys, Chelonien marin-littoral, dans le Kimmeridgien d’Alcobaca, Portugal1
- XIII. On a new chelonian from the Kimmeridge Clay of Swindon1
- Sauvage, 18981
- Lennier, 18701
Each of the 16 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 content1
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Craspedochelys picteti · nms:paleontology:NMSO_9149
No picture of Craspedochelys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Craspedochelys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlesiochelyidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rütimeyer 1873