Cuvierichelys parisiensis

Cuvierichelys parisiensis

Ghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
Sits inside
CuvierichelysPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira

Time the record covers

At most 3.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 7 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38.21 Mya33.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Cuvierichelys parisiensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

7 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

Bouldnor — 50.70°N, 1.50°W

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The named rock units Cuvierichelys parisiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cuvierichelys parisiensis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cuvierichelys parisiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

38 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cuvierichelys parisiensis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 7 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

Media content1

Picture of Cuvierichelys parisiensis

Credit
Ghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cuvierichelys parisiensis 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 itCuvierichelys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1831)