Foxemys mechinorum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FoxemysPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Pleurodira
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Pleurodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Pleurodira
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Foxemys mechinorum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
- Grès à Reptiles Formation2
- Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation1
- Argiles rutilantes Formation1
- Villalba de la Sierra Formation1
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The named rock units Foxemys mechinorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Foxemys mechinorum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Foxemys mechinorum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Dromaeosauridae4 sites
- Lepisosteidae4 sites
- Nodosauridae4 sites
- Rhabdodon4 sites
- Abelisauridae3 sites
- Ampelosaurus atacis3 sites
- Axelrodichthys megadromos3 sites
- Azhdarchidae3 sites
- Gargantuavis philoinos3 sites
- Acynodon iberoccitanus2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Dinosauria2 sites
- Enantiornithes2 sites
- Musturzabalsuchus2 sites
- Neosuchia2 sites
- Plantae2 sites
- Pterosauria2 sites
- Solemys2 sites
- Titanosauria2 sites
- Titanosauridae2 sites
- Unionidae2 sites
- Variraptor mechinorum2 sites
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Acynodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Foxemys mechinorum, 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
4 references- Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae3
- Identification of the French Upper Cretaceous bothremydid turtle Foxemys mechinorum in the Spanish record1
- Aix-en-Provence Basin—between eggs and dinosaurs1
- Foxemys, a new side-necked turtle (Bothremydidae: Pelomedusoides) from the Late Cretaceous of France1
Each of the 6 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 Foxemys mechinorum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Foxemys mechinorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Foxemys mechinorum 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 itFoxemys through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tong et al. 1998