Pelusios sinuatus

The serrated hinged terrapin is a species of turtle in the family Pelomedusidae. The species is native to East Africa and Southern Africa. There are two recognised subspecies.

Pelusios sinuatus

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 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
Serrated hinged terrapinPBDB
Sits inside
PelusiosPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pelomedusidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Pelomedusidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Pelomedusidae

Time the record covers

At least 780 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 7 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.58 Mya – 1.8 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Pelusios sinuatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

14 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

6 formations

Olduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EChiwondo — 10.33°S, 34.17°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENyakabingo — 1.00°N, 30.50°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ELusso Beds — 0.03°N, 29.62°E

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The named rock units Pelusios sinuatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pelusios sinuatus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pelusios sinuatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pelusios sinuatus, 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

10 references

Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Pelusios sinuatus

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Pelusios sinuatus · zmuc:rept:R2820

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1838