Plesiochelys etalloni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesiochelysPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At least 3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 145.06 Mya.
14 occurrences of Plesiochelys etalloni 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
14 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Plesiochelys etalloni 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.
Plesiochelys etalloni and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Plesiochelys etalloni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Tropidemys langii6 sites
- Plesiochelys bigleri3 sites
- Thalassemys hugii2 sites
- Tropidemys2 sites
- Asteracanthus1 site
- Athrodon boloniensis1 site
- Caturus1 site
- Chelonides wittei1 site
- Craspedochelys jaccardi1 site
- Craspedochelys picteti1 site
- Dacosaurus maximus1 site
- Eurysternidae1 site
- Gyrodus1 site
- Gyrodus cuvieri1 site
- Hybodus acutus1 site
- Hypsocormus1 site
- Ichthyosaurus1 site
- Ischyodus1 site
- Jurassichelon moseri1 site
- Lepidotes1 site
- Machimosaurus hugii1 site
- Mesodon1 site
- Metriorhynchus hastifer1 site
- Microdon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Plesiochelys etalloni, 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
8 references- Die Schildkröten aus dem oberen Jura (Malm) der Gegend von Solothurn4
- The comparative osteology of Plesiochelys bigleri n. sp., a new coastal marine turtle from the Late Jurassic of Porrentruy (Switzerland)3
- A taxonomic revision of the Jurassic turtles Portlandemys and Plesiochelys2
- First report of Plesiochelys etalloni and Tropidemys langii from the Late Jurassic of the UK and the palaeobiogeography of plesiochelyid turtles1
- New data on the poorly-known Late Jurassic European turtles Thalassemys and Enaliochelys and description of a new basal eucryptodiran taxon1
- Nouvelles decouvertes de tortues dans le Jurassique Supérieur du Lot (France) et examen du taxon Plesiochelyidae1
- Les Poissons et les Reptiles du Jurassique supérieur de Fumel (Lot-et-Garonne) [The fishes and reptiles from the Upper Jurassic of Fumel (Lot-et-Garonne)]1
- Portis, 18781
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.
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No picture of Plesiochelys etalloni 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 Plesiochelys etalloni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plesiochelys etalloni 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 itPlesiochelys through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pictet and Humbert 1857)