Hesperotestudo turgida
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HesperotestudoPBDB
- 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 least 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 4.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
18 occurrences of Hesperotestudo turgida on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
18 occurrences- Miocene24%
- Pliocene28%
- Pleistocene49%
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
6 formations
- Long Pine Formation2
- Alachua Formation1
- Rexroad Formation1
- Peace River Formation · Hawthorn Group1
- Blanco Formation1
- Ocala Formation1
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The named rock units Hesperotestudo turgida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hesperotestudo turgida and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hesperotestudo turgida and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
500 taxa- Equus8 sites
- Dasypus bellus6 sites
- Lynx rufus6 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus6 sites
- Procyon lotor6 sites
- Scalopus aquaticus6 sites
- Didelphis virginiana5 sites
- Gopherus polyphemus5 sites
- Mammut americanum5 sites
- Neofiber alleni5 sites
- Terrapene carolina5 sites
- Alligator mississippiensis4 sites
- Coluber constrictor4 sites
- Cryptotis parva4 sites
- Geomys pinetis4 sites
- Glaucomys volans4 sites
- Hemiauchenia4 sites
- Hemiauchenia macrocephala4 sites
- Holmesina septentrionalis4 sites
- Mephitis mephitis4 sites
- Microtus pinetorum4 sites
- Myotis austroriparius4 sites
- Neotoma floridana4 sites
- Oryzomys palustris4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Hesperotestudo turgida, 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
14 references- Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) vertebrate faunas from coastal Georgia2
- Amphibians and reptiles2
- A new species of Pliocene tortoise, genus Geochelone, from Florida2
- The status of the Upper Pliocene turtle, Testudo turgida Cope2
- Taphonomy of a late Pleistocene carnivore den, Dade County, Florida1
- A new species of Geochelone (Testudinata: Testudinidae) from the Pleistocene of Florida (U.S.A.)1
- Herpetofaunas of the Big Springs and Hornet's Nest quarries (northeastern Nebraska, Pleistocene: Late Blancan)1
- The late Pleistocene herpetofauna of Devil's Den Sinkhole, Levy County, Florida1
- Vertebrate Evidence of a Low Sea Level in the Middle Pliocene1
- The Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of Reddick, Florida1
- A new species of Geochelone from the Pleistocene of Texas1
- Descriptions of some Floridian fossil vertebrates, belonging mostly to the Pleistocene1
Each of the 18 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. 2 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.
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No picture of Hesperotestudo turgida was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Hesperotestudo turgida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hesperotestudo turgida 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.
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What may have been alongside itHesperotestudo through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1892)