Kenyemys williamsi
No picture of Kenyemys williamsi 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 Kenyemys williamsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KenyemysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, carnivorePBDB, for Podocnemididae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Podocnemididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Podocnemididae
Time the record covers
At most 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Kenyemys williamsi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Nachukui Formation1
- Lothagam 1 Formation · Lothagam Group1
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The named rock units Kenyemys williamsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kenyemys williamsi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Kenyemys williamsi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Aves2 sites
- Brachypotherium2 sites
- Ceratotherium2 sites
- Gazella2 sites
- Geochelone2 sites
- Nyanzachoerus2 sites
- Nyanzachoerus jaegeri2 sites
- Parapapio2 sites
- Polypterus2 sites
- Stegotetrabelodon orbus2 sites
- <Clarias/ Heterobranchus>1 site
- Aepyceros premelampus1 site
- Alcelaphini1 site
- Alestes sp.1 site
- Anancus kenyensis1 site
- Anomaluridae1 site
- Antilope1 site
- Archaeopotamus harvardi1 site
- Australopithecus africanus1 site
- Bagridae1 site
- Bagrus1 site
- Barbus1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Bovini1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Kenyemys williamsi, 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
2 references- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa1
- Kenyemys williamsi, a fossil pelomedusid turtle from the Pliocene of Kenya1
Each 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. 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
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No picture of Kenyemys williamsi 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 Kenyemys williamsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kenyemys williamsi 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 itKenyemys through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1983