Osteopygis backmani
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OsteopygisPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira
Time the record covers
At least 8.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 57.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya.
13 occurrences of Osteopygis backmani on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
13 occurrences- Late Cretaceous46%
- Paleocene54%
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
5 formations
- Hell Creek Formation · Montana Group4
- Fort Union Formation2
- Lance Formation2
- Paskapoo Formation2
- Ravenscrag Formation1
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The named rock units Osteopygis backmani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Osteopygis backmani and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Osteopygis backmani and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Baenidae5 sites
- Trionychidae5 sites
- Champsosaurus4 sites
- Chelydridae4 sites
- Adocus3 sites
- Basilemys3 sites
- Ceratopsidae3 sites
- Compsemys victa3 sites
- Crocodylia3 sites
- Hadrosauridae3 sites
- Lepisosteidae3 sites
- Osteichthyes3 sites
- Testudines3 sites
- Urodela3 sites
- Amiidae2 sites
- Brachychampsa montana2 sites
- Champsosauridae2 sites
- Champsosaurus natator2 sites
- Compsemys2 sites
- Coryphodon2 sites
- Crocodylidae2 sites
- Cryptodira2 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus2 sites
- Lepisosteus occidentalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Osteopygis backmani, 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
6 references- Patterns of geographic variation in latest Cretaceous vertebrates: evidence from the turtle component4
- Non-trionychid turtles from the Paleocene of Alberta, Canada3
- Fossil Vertebrate Collections2
- A transitional Paleocene-Eocene reptile fauna from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming2
- “Macrobaenidae” (Testudines: Eucryptodira) from the Late Paleocene (Clarkforkian) of Montana and the taxonomic treatment of “Clemmys” backmani1
- Fauna and correlation of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene) of southwestern Saskatchewan1
Each of the 13 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
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No picture of Osteopygis backmani 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 Osteopygis backmani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Osteopygis backmani 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 itOsteopygis through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Russell 1934)