Kirgizemys

Kirgizemys is an extinct genus of turtle from Early Cretaceous of China, South Korea, Mongolia, Russia and Kyrgyzstan.

No picture of Kirgizemys 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 Kirgizemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MacrobaenidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 9 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132.6 Mya100.5 Mya137.9 Mya93 Mya

12 occurrences of Kirgizemys on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

12 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

9 formations

Khodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EMurtoi — 51.20°N, 106.27°EMurtoi — 51.28°N, 106.43°EIlek — 55.90°N, 87.96°EKhilok — 50.68°N, 107.92°EAlamyshik — 40.00°N, 73.00°EDzunbain — 42.45°N, 102.42°EKhulsangol — 45.85°N, 108.40°EGeoncheonri — 35.87°N, 128.60°EKhuren Dukh — 45.85°N, 108.40°E

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The named rock units Kirgizemys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Kirgizemys and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Kirgizemys and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

202 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Kirgizemys, 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

10 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content0

No picture of Kirgizemys 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 Kirgizemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kirgizemys 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itMacrobaenidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nessov and Khozatskiy 1973