Lophochelys venatrix
No picture of Lophochelys venatrix 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 Lophochelys venatrix, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LophochelysPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Chelonioidea
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Lophochelys venatrix on record, most of them in the Late 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
- Mooreville Chalk Formation · Selma Group1
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The named rock units Lophochelys venatrix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lophochelys venatrix and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Lophochelys venatrix and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Protostega gigas2 sites
- Toxochelys moorevillensis2 sites
- Chelosphargis advena1 site
- Clidastes propython1 site
- Ctenochelys1 site
- Ctenochelys acris1 site
- Prionochelys matutina1 site
- Saurodon leanus1 site
- Tylosaurus zangerli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lophochelys venatrix, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Lophochelys venatrix 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 Lophochelys venatrix, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lophochelys venatrix was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLophochelys through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zangerl 1953