Parachelys

Parachelys is a genus of Late Jurassic turtle from marine deposits in Bavaria, southern Germany.

No picture of Parachelys 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 Parachelys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EurysternidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 128 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 16.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence145.06 Mya16.9 Mya152 Mya13 Mya

2 occurrences of Parachelys on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

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

2 formations

Miocene Lower Continental Complex — 41.44°N, 2.00°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°E

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The named rock units Parachelys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Parachelys and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Parachelys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Parachelys, 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

2 references

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Parachelys 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 Parachelys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Parachelys 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.

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 itEurysternidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meyer 1864