Kinosternon

Kinosternon

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 11 of 46 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 46 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 25 of 46 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences16.3 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

46 occurrences of Kinosternon on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

46 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

15 formations

Rexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WTesuque — 35.06°N, 106.15°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WGoleta — 19.70°N, 101.12°WPalomas — 33.10°N, 107.30°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WSilver Bluff — 32.56°N, 80.29°WSt. David — 31.97°N, 110.30°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WMarks Head — 29.90°N, 82.90°WSanta Fe — 36.50°N, 107.00°WCamp Rice — 32.65°N, 107.23°W

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The named rock units Kinosternon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kinosternon and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Kinosternon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

950 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Kinosternon, 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

33 references

Each of the 46 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. 21 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 Kinosternon

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Hhmb assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kinosternon 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 itKinosternidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Spix 1824