Geochelone radiata
No picture of Geochelone radiata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Geochelone radiata itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Geochelone radiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Radiated 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.
2 occurrences of Geochelone radiata 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
2 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 radiata and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Geochelone radiata and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Aldabrachelys2 sites
- Archaeolemur majori2 sites
- Bos indicus2 sites
- Canis familiaris2 sites
- Cheirogaleus medius2 sites
- Geogale aurita2 sites
- Hadropithecus stenognathus2 sites
- Hippopotamus lemerlei2 sites
- Hypogeomys2 sites
- Lemur catta2 sites
- Megaladapis edwardsi2 sites
- Microcebus2 sites
- Microgale2 sites
- Mus musculus2 sites
- Pachylemur insignis2 sites
- Propithecus verreauxi2 sites
- Rattus2 sites
- Rousettus2 sites
- Tenrec ecaudatus2 sites
- Acrantophis1 site
- Aepyornis1 site
- Apus1 site
- Archaeolemur edwardsi1 site
- Artamella viridis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Geochelone radiata, 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 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 content0
No picture of Geochelone radiata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Geochelone radiata itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Geochelone radiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Geochelone radiata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
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. Shaw 1802