Malayemys macrocephala
The Malayan snail-eating turtle is a species of turtle in Malayemys genus of the family Geoemydidae.
Krittiya Chiangkul, Poramad Trivalairat and Watchariya Purivirojkul · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Malayan snail-eating turtlePBDB
- Sits inside
- MalayemysPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Malayemys macrocephala on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
5 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Malayemys macrocephala and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Malayemys macrocephala and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Batagur affinis5 sites
- Amyda4 sites
- Cuora amboinensis4 sites
- Heosemys4 sites
- Heosemys annandalii4 sites
- Heosemys grandis3 sites
- Siebenrockiella crassicollis3 sites
- Testudinidae3 sites
- Indotestudo elongata2 sites
- Geochelone1 site
- Manouria emys1 site
- Trionychidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Malayemys macrocephala, 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 5 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
Media content1
Picture of Malayemys macrocephala
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Krittiya Chiangkul, Poramad Trivalairat and Watchariya Purivirojkul
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Malayemys macrocephala was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itMalayemys through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1859