Geochelone elephantopus
No picture of Geochelone elephantopus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Geochelone elephantopus itself, so it was not used. 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 Geochelone elephantopus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Galapagos giant tortoisePBDB
- Sits inside
- GeochelonePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, herbivorePBDB, for Testudinidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Testudinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Testudinidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Geochelone elephantopus on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
4 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Geochelone elephantopus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Geochelone elephantopus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Alsophis4 sites
- Aves4 sites
- Geospiza fuliginosa4 sites
- Geospiza magnirostris4 sites
- Mimus trifasciatus4 sites
- Passeriformes4 sites
- Phyllodactylus4 sites
- Rattus rattus4 sites
- Tropidurus4 sites
- Zenaida galapagoensis4 sites
- Geospiza3 sites
- Geospiza fortis3 sites
- Mus musculus3 sites
- Camarhynchus pauper2 sites
- Certhidea olivacea2 sites
- Geospiza difficilis2 sites
- Lasiurus borealis2 sites
- Mammalia2 sites
- Myiarchus magnirostris2 sites
- Nyctanassa violacea2 sites
- Ardeidae1 site
- Camarhynchus parvulus1 site
- Equus asinus1 site
- Felis domesticus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Geochelone elephantopus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Geochelone elephantopus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Geochelone elephantopus itself, so it was not used.
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 Geochelone elephantopus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Geochelone elephantopus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGeochelone through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Harlan 1827)