Palaeoemys
No picture of Palaeoemys 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 Palaeoemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TestudinidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, herbivorePBDB, for Testudinidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Testudinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Testudinidae
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
6 occurrences of Palaeoemys on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Palaeoemys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeoemys and its relatives
EoceneWhere Palaeoemys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Fabaceae2 sites
- Fontainechelon cassouleti2 sites
- Pelorochelon eocaenica2 sites
- Rafetoides messelianus2 sites
- Trionyx2 sites
- Aceripollis striatus1 site
- Acrostichum1 site
- Agrypnus1 site
- Ailuravus picteti1 site
- Allaeochelys1 site
- Alnipollenites verus1 site
- Alticinae1 site
- Amiiformes1 site
- Anacardiaceae1 site
- Anguini1 site
- Anura1 site
- Apioninae1 site
- Araceae1 site
- Araliaceoipollenites1 site
- Araucariacites1 site
- Arecaceae1 site
- Asiatosuchus depressifrons1 site
- Aumelasia menieli1 site
- Baculatisporites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Palaeoemys, 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
4 references- Deux nouvelles tortues de l’Éocène inférieur de Saint-Papoul (Aude, France)3
- Die Schildkröten aus den Mitteleozänen Sedimenten des Eckfelder Maares mit taxonomischen Notizen zu Testudo eocaenica Hummel, 1935 (Mitteleozän, Deutschland, Rheinland-Pfalz, Vulkaneifel)1
- La Borie (Saint-Papoul, Aude) : un gisement exceptionnel dans l’Éocène basal du Sud de la France1
- Early Eocene testudinoid turtles from Saint-Papoul, France, with comments on the early evolution of modern Testudinoidea1
Each of the 6 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 Palaeoemys 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 Palaeoemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeoemys 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTestudinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schleich 1994