Euclastes meridionalis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EuclastesPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Chelonioidea
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Euclastes meridionalis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
2 formations
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group1
- Roca Formation1
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The named rock units Euclastes meridionalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Euclastes meridionalis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Euclastes meridionalis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Aphrodina1 site
- Biantholithus1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Ctenocheles1 site
- Diplodetus nutrix1 site
- Eucalliax burckhardti1 site
- Eutrephoceras1 site
- Foraminifera1 site
- Gauthieria menuthiae1 site
- Gryphaeostrea callophyla1 site
- Hemiaster stella1 site
- Hercoglossa romeroi1 site
- Hercoglossa walteri1 site
- Hoploparia arbei1 site
- Leionucula1 site
- Lobonotus lobulata1 site
- Neilo ornata1 site
- Odontogryphaea1 site
- Paraster joannisboehmi1 site
- Pinna1 site
- Psilonichnus1 site
- Pycnodonte (Phygraea) burckhardti1 site
- Pycnodonte (Phygraea) sarmientoi1 site
- Pygopistes parrasae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Euclastes meridionalis, 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
2 references- Euclastes meridionalis (DE LA FUENTE & CASADÍO) (Testudines: Pancheloniidae) from Danian levels of the Jagüel Formation at Cerro Azul, Northern Patagonia, Argentina1
- Un nuevo osteopigino (Chelonii: Cryptodira) de la Formación Roca (Paleoceno inferior) de Cerros Bayos, provincia de La Pampa, Argentina1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Euclastes meridionalis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Schenardi martin
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Euclastes meridionalis 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 itEuclastes through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de la Fuente and Casadio 2000)