Platypeltis ferox

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Florida softshell turtlePBDB
Sits inside
Apalone (Platypeltis)PBDB
Diet
piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Trionychidae
Life habit
aquatic, solitaryPBDB, for Trionychidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trionychidae
Environment
brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Trionychidae

Time the record covers

At least 2 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 14 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 210 ka to 0 Mya.

Pleistocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 3 occurrences213 ka–189 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189 ka–166 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166 ka–142 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142 ka–118 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118 ka–95 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95 ka–71 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71 ka–47 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47 ka–24 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence14 ka – 11.7 ka710 ka0 Mya

3 occurrences of Platypeltis ferox 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

3 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.

Platypeltis ferox and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Platypeltis ferox and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Platypeltis ferox, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Platypeltis ferox 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 itApalone (Platypeltis) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schneider 1783)