Eucryptodira

Eucryptodira

Shuai Shao1, Yang Yang, Lan Li, Da-Yong Sun, Chang-Fu Zhou​ · CC BY 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
CryptodiraPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira

Time the record covers

At least 170 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 540 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 18 of 540 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 30 of 540 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 85 of 540 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 192 of 540 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 51 of 540 occurrencesEocene — about 33 of 540 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 540 occurrencesMiocene — about 65 of 540 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 540 occurrencesPleistocene — about 36 of 540 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 13 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 16 occurrences157–150 Mya — about 11 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 7 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 4 occurrences138–132 Mya — about 11 occurrences132–125 Mya — about 9 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 32 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 12 occurrences113–106 Mya — about 11 occurrences106–100 Mya — about 8 occurrences100–94 Mya — about 11 occurrences94–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–81 Mya — about 18 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 43 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 71 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 69 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 24 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 31 occurrences50–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 20 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 31 occurrences13–6.3 Mya — about 15 occurrences6.3–0 Mya — about 56 occurrences170.9 Mya11.7 ka188 Mya0 Mya

540 occurrences of Eucryptodira on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

540 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

129 formations

Hell Creek — 46.03°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 47.88°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.28°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.88°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.50°WHell Creek — 47.70°N, 105.80°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 45.87°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WDinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WDinosaur Park — 50.79°N, 111.62°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.46°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.52°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.17°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 43.92°N, 107.58°WWillwood — 44.08°N, 108.22°WWillwood — 44.21°N, 108.48°WTudela — 42.06°N, 1.55°WTudela — 42.07°N, 1.61°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WShaximiao — 30.12°N, 104.65°EShaximiao — 29.41°N, 104.85°EShaximiao — 29.56°N, 106.55°EShaximiao — 29.58°N, 105.07°EShaximiao — 29.41°N, 104.77°EDenver — 38.80°N, 104.80°WDenver — 39.50°N, 104.70°WDenver — 38.91°N, 104.53°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 47.70°N, 105.80°WFort Union — 39.10°N, 106.90°WFort Union — 46.23°N, 109.81°WYixian — 41.60°N, 120.87°EYixian — 41.47°N, 121.19°EYixian — 41.60°N, 120.82°EYixian — 40.97°N, 120.94°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EYixian — 41.53°N, 121.02°EKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.79°WKaiparowits — 37.72°N, 111.78°WKaiparowits — 37.75°N, 111.61°WKaiparowits — 37.63°N, 111.87°WKaiparowits — 37.84°N, 111.28°WKaiparowits — 37.30°N, 112.43°WShishugou — 45.13°N, 88.95°EShishugou — 43.79°N, 87.63°EShishugou — 45.17°N, 88.92°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°ELianmuqin — 46.04°N, 85.79°ELianmuqin — 46.10°N, 85.67°ELianmuqin — 43.55°N, 87.26°EHornerstown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.16°WHornerstown — 39.90°N, 74.82°WPaskapoo — 51.10°N, 114.20°WPaskapoo — 52.27°N, 113.83°WPaskapoo — 53.21°N, 114.93°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.76°WGlen Rose Limestone — 32.37°N, 97.69°WGlen Rose Limestone — 32.50°N, 97.78°WGlen Rose Limestone — 32.23°N, 98.23°WGlen Rose Limestone — 32.25°N, 97.72°WMinhe — 39.82°N, 98.30°EBalabansai — 41.34°N, 72.23°EQigu — 42.96°N, 90.49°EQigu — 43.55°N, 87.26°EQigu — 43.79°N, 87.55°EQigu — 42.94°N, 90.50°EItsuki — 35.97°N, 136.60°EItsuki — 35.94°N, 136.62°EItsuki — 35.90°N, 136.79°EBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WForemost — 49.60°N, 111.00°WLuohandong — 38.92°N, 108.08°ELuohandong — 40.00°N, 108.00°E

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The named rock units Eucryptodira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 105 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 98 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eucryptodira and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Eucryptodira and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,479 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 453 sites for Eucryptodira, and this reads 240 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

253 references

Each of the 540 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. 241 further references are not listed. 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

Picture of Eucryptodira

Credit
Shuai Shao1, Yang Yang, Lan Li, Da-Yong Sun, Chang-Fu Zhou​
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaffney 1975