Protestudo
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TestudinidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, herbivorePBDB, for Testudinidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Testudinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Testudinidae
Time the record covers
At least 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 7.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
8 occurrences of Protestudo on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Akzhar Formation1
- Chersonian Formation · Balta Group1
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The named rock units Protestudo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protestudo and its relatives
MioceneWhere Protestudo and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
118 taxa- Aceratherium incisivum4 sites
- Aceratherium3 sites
- Deinotherium giganteum3 sites
- Gazella3 sites
- Hipparion3 sites
- Hyaena3 sites
- Mammut3 sites
- Palaeotragus3 sites
- Palaeotragus rouenii3 sites
- Proochotona3 sites
- Tetralophodon longirostris3 sites
- Zygolophodon turicensis3 sites
- Dihoplus schleiermacheri2 sites
- Eryx2 sites
- Helladotherium duvernoyi2 sites
- Hipparion depereti2 sites
- Ictitherium2 sites
- Machairodus2 sites
- Machairodus giganteus2 sites
- Microstonyx major2 sites
- Neocricetodon2 sites
- Palaeoryx2 sites
- Palaeoryx majori2 sites
- Procapreolus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Protestudo, 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
6 references- Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R.3
- New findings of neogene tortoises Titanochelon kayadibiensis sp. nov. and Protestudo bessarabica (Riabinin, 1918) (Testudinidae) from the Miocene of western Turkey, with a review of fossil turtles of Turkey1
- Associatia de vertebrate din punctul fosilifer Sarmatian mediu Otovasca (Mun. Chisinau) si importanta oor biostratigraphfica1
- Turtles Protestudo bessarabica from the Late Miocene of Ukraine1
- Neogene amphibians and reptiles (Caudata, Anura, Gekkota, Lacertilia, and Testudines) from the south of Western Siberia, Russia, and Northeastern Kazakhstan1
- Late Miocene bony fishes from Pocsesti (Republic of Moldova)1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Protestudo 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 Protestudo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protestudo 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 itTestudinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chkhikvadze 1970