Podocnemididae

Podocnemididae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PelomedusoidesPBDB
Diet
herbivore, carnivorePBDB
Life habit
aquaticPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 18 of 254 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 254 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 97 of 254 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 254 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 89 of 254 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 254 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 254 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 12 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 12 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 16 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 16 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 11 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 17 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 10 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 6 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 19 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 17 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 19 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 20 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 22 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences89.8 Mya11.7 ka96 Mya0 Mya

254 occurrences of Podocnemididae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

254 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

96 formations

Solimões — 9.97°S, 67.80°WSolimões — 10.13°S, 67.81°WSolimões — 9.05°S, 68.77°WSolimões — 9.39°S, 72.72°WSolimões — 8.82°S, 72.82°WSolimões — 8.92°S, 72.78°WSolimões — 8.79°S, 67.50°WSolimões — 8.96°S, 68.62°WSolimões — 6.50°S, 69.67°WUrumaco — 11.22°N, 70.27°WUrumaco — 11.22°N, 70.25°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WPebas — 2.81°S, 73.55°WPebas — 3.74°S, 73.25°WEntrala — 41.43°N, 5.57°WEntrala — 41.59°N, 5.69°WEntrala — 41.40°N, 5.67°WEntrala — 41.40°N, 5.29°WEntrala — 41.57°N, 5.76°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.27°WCastilletes — 11.86°N, 71.37°WCastilletes — 12.00°N, 71.03°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.32°WLa Victoria — 3.27°N, 75.12°WLa Victoria — 3.36°N, 75.16°WLa Victoria — 3.31°N, 75.15°WLa Victoria — 3.22°N, 75.22°WJebel Qatrani — 29.64°N, 30.58°EJebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°ESolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSolimoes — 10.93°S, 69.92°WSolimoes — 10.94°S, 69.34°WQasr el-Sagha — 29.62°N, 30.69°EMoghara — 30.38°N, 28.82°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ETorreya — 30.30°N, 84.20°WTorreya — 30.50°N, 84.50°WLothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EPondaung — 21.75°N, 94.67°EPondaung — 21.95°N, 94.53°EAdamantina — 21.10°S, 49.28°WAdamantina — 25.73°S, 48.58°WAdamantina — 22.00°S, 49.00°WGrès d'Assignan — 43.34°N, 2.67°EGrès d'Assignan — 43.33°N, 2.62°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EBirket Qarun — 29.54°N, 30.67°EBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.02°ESaint-Papoul — 43.33°N, 2.04°ECorrales — 41.37°N, 5.75°WCorrales — 41.32°N, 5.71°WCorrales — 41.37°N, 5.72°WLignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°ELignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°ESobrarbe — 42.34°N, 0.14°ESobrarbe — 42.30°N, 0.17°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°E

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The named rock units Podocnemididae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 72 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 53 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Podocnemididae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Podocnemididae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,809 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 211 sites for Podocnemididae, 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

126 references

Each of the 254 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. 114 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Podocnemididae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Podocnemididae 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 itPelomedusoides through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1868)