Paleotestudo antiqua
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaleotestudoPBDB
- 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 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
21 occurrences of Paleotestudo antiqua on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
21 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Paleotestudo antiqua and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paleotestudo antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Titanochelon bolivari5 sites
- Copemys2 sites
- Erinaceidae2 sites
- Heteroxerus2 sites
- Latonia seyfriedi2 sites
- Myomimus dehmi2 sites
- Ophisaurus2 sites
- Prolagus crusafonti2 sites
- Soricidae2 sites
- Albanensia albanensis1 site
- Amphicyon1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Anchitherium1 site
- Atlantoxerus1 site
- Austroportax1 site
- Aves1 site
- Barberapithecus huerzeleri1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Bransatoglis1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Chalicomys1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Cricetodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Paleotestudo antiqua, 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- Analysis of the Iberian Aragonian record of Paleotestudo, and refutation of the validity of the Spanish ‘Testudo catalaunica’ and the French ‘Paleotestudo canetotiana’8
- The Miocene tortoise Testudo catalaunica Bataller, 1926, and a revised phylogeny of extinct species of genus Testudo (Testudines: Testudinidae)7
- Las tortugas del Vallesiense superior del Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid, España): nuevos datos sobre el escasamente conocido género Paleotestudo2
- Primeros testudinidae (Chelonia) del Vallesiense de Los Valles de Fuentidueña (Segovia)2
- Quelonios del Miocene superior de Crevillente 2 (Alicante, Espana)1
- Estudio de los restos fosiles de tortuga recientemente encontrados en Cataluna1
Each of the 21 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 Paleotestudo antiqua 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 Paleotestudo antiqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paleotestudo antiqua 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPaleotestudo through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bronn 1831)