Eocenochelus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ErymnochelyinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, carnivorePBDB, for Podocnemididae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Podocnemididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Podocnemididae
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
9 occurrences of Eocenochelus 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
9 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
6 formations
- Cixerri Formation2
- Sant Martí Xic Formation1
- Marnes de Foncouverte Formation1
- Wittering Formation · Bracklesham Group1
- Brussels Sand Formation1
- Sobrarbe Formation1
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The named rock units Eocenochelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eocenochelus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eocenochelus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Ailuravus michauxi1 site
- Axestemys vittata1 site
- Batillaria1 site
- Crassostrea (Cymbulostrea) cymbula1 site
- Eocithara1 site
- Fusus longaevus1 site
- Lophiotherium cervulum1 site
- Lucina1 site
- Nannopithex zuccolae1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Posidonia1 site
- Sobrarbesiren cardieli1 site
- Terebellopsis brauni1 site
- Trionychidae1 site
- Wateletia1 site
- Woutersophis novus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Eocenochelus, 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
6 references- The occurrence of Eocenochelus (Testudines, Pleurodira) from Sardinia supports palaeogeographic reconstruction of the proximity of the island to continental Western Europe during the Eocene2
- The Erymnochelys group of turtles (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae) in the Eocene of Europe: New taxa and paleobiogeographical implications2
- Neochelys sp. (Chelonii, Erymnochelyinae), from Silveirinha, early Eocene, Portugal2
- Huevos de dinosaurio en la Sierra Exteriores de Huesca [Dinosaur eggs in the Sierras Exteriores of Huesca]1
- Identification of Podocnemididae (Pleurodira) in the British record by the first specimen of the coastal Eocenochelus recognized outside Continental Europe1
- Identification of the African–European Erymnochelys group (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae) in the Belgian fossil record: first finding of Eocenochelus eremberti outside its type locality1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Eocenochelus 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 Eocenochelus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eocenochelus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itErymnochelyinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pérez-García et al. 2017