Cycloderma

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CyclanorbinaePBDB

Diet

piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Trionychidae

Life habit

aquatic, solitaryPBDB, for Trionychidae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Trionychidae

Environment

brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Trionychidae

• Early Jurassic7%
• Miocene45%
• Pliocene45%
• Pleistocene3%

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.

Where Cycloderma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene. Draw the map

• Alcelaphini5 sites
• Bovidae5 sites
• Bovini4 sites
• Crocodylus4 sites
• Hexaprotodon4 sites
• Struthio4 sites
• Trionychidae4 sites
• Archaeopotamus harvardi3 sites
• Aves3 sites
• Bagridae3 sites
• Brachypotherium3 sites
• Ceratotherium3 sites
• Clarias3 sites
• Eurygnathohippus turkanense3 sites
• Gazella3 sites
• Geochelone3 sites
• Giraffa3 sites
• Hippotragini3 sites
• Lates3 sites
• Mammalia3 sites
• Parapapio3 sites
• Reduncini3 sites
• Rhinocerotidae3 sites
• Stegotetrabelodon orbus3 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Cycloderma, 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.

• Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern AfricaLeakey and Harris, 2003 · book3
• Lothagam: a record of faunal change in the late Miocene of East AfricaLeakey and Feibel, 1996 · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology · journal article2
• Fossil soft-shelled turtles of the Lake Turkana Basin,AfricaMeylan et al., 1990 · Copeia · journal article2
• The Lower Miocene Fauna of Al-Sarrar (Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia)Thomas et al., 1982 · Atlal · journal article2
• Extinct ostrich eggshell (Aves: Struthionidae) from the Pliocene Chiwondo Beds, Malawi: implications for the potential biostratigraphic correlation of African Neogene depositsStidham, 2004 · Journal of Human Evolution · journal article1
• Paleobiogeography of the Malawi Rift: Age and vertebrate paleontology of the Chiwondo Beds, northern MalawiBromage et al., 1995 · Journal of Human Evolution · journal article1
• Plio-Pleistocene Hippopotamidae from the Upper SemlikiPavlakis, 1990 · Virgia Museum of Natural History Memior1
• Appendix II. On the Lower Miocene Vertebrates from British East Africa, collected by Dr. Felix OswaldAndrews, 1914 · Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society · journal article1
• Heer, 1864Die Urwelt der Schweiz · book1

Each of the 14 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.

What may have been alongside itCyclanorbinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peters 1854