Kinosternoidea

Kinosternoidea is a superfamily of aquatic turtles, which includes two families: Dermatemydidae, and Kinosternidae.

Kinosternoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
mud turtlePBDB
Sits inside
TrionychoideaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 250 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 250 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 40 of 250 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 52 of 250 occurrencesEocene — about 84 of 250 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 250 occurrencesMiocene — about 23 of 250 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 250 occurrencesPleistocene — about 35 of 250 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 11 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 11 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 11 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 32 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 8 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 48 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 37 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 13 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 49 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

250 occurrences of Kinosternoidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

250 occurrences

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

58 formations

Willwood — 43.92°N, 107.58°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.21°N, 108.48°WWillwood — 44.08°N, 108.22°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.99°N, 107.72°WDenver — 38.80°N, 104.80°WDenver — 38.86°N, 104.61°WDenver — 38.91°N, 104.53°WCerro del Pueblo — 26.12°N, 101.12°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.47°N, 101.70°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.47°N, 101.42°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.51°N, 101.34°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.50°N, 101.75°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.13°N, 104.07°WWind River — 43.03°N, 108.63°WWind River — 43.27°N, 107.50°WWasatch — 42.24°N, 110.19°WWasatch — 42.76°N, 109.92°WWasatch — 41.64°N, 108.53°WBridger — 41.07°N, 110.00°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.30°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.79°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 39.27°N, 108.18°WFort Union — 39.20°N, 108.20°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WHornerstown — 39.90°N, 74.82°WHornerstown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WHornerstown — 40.13°N, 74.51°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.88°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.00°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.50°WNorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.27°WNorth Horn — 39.10°N, 111.80°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°WDeBeque — 40.10°N, 108.20°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°WChadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WAguja — 29.20°N, 103.55°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WSan Jose — 35.20°N, 106.60°WSan Jose — 36.20°N, 107.67°WCub Mountain — 33.54°N, 105.87°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WBlack Peaks — 29.36°N, 103.52°WBlack Peaks — 29.40°N, 103.20°WWilliamsburg — 33.43°N, 80.10°WKirtland — 36.34°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 36.51°N, 108.32°W

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The named rock units Kinosternoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kinosternoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Kinosternoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,062 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 231 sites for Kinosternoidea, 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

96 references

Each of the 250 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. 84 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Kinosternoidea

Credit
User:Dawson
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kinosternoidea 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hay 1892)