Protestudo bessarabica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtestudoPBDB
- 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 most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Protestudo bessarabica 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
5 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.
Protestudo bessarabica and its relatives
MioceneWhere Protestudo bessarabica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Aceratherium incisivum3 sites
- Deinotherium giganteum3 sites
- Hyaena3 sites
- Mammut3 sites
- Palaeotragus rouenii3 sites
- Aceratherium2 sites
- Dihoplus schleiermacheri2 sites
- Gazella2 sites
- Helladotherium duvernoyi2 sites
- Hipparion2 sites
- Hipparion depereti2 sites
- Ictitherium2 sites
- Machairodus2 sites
- Microstonyx major2 sites
- Palaeoryx2 sites
- Palaeoryx majori2 sites
- Tragocerus2 sites
- Zygolophodon turicensis2 sites
- Adcrocuta eximia1 site
- Alces1 site
- Castor fiber1 site
- Cervavitus1 site
- Cervus1 site
- Choerolophodon pentelici1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Protestudo bessarabica, 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- 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
- Turtles Protestudo bessarabica from the Late Miocene of Ukraine1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Protestudo bessarabica 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 bessarabica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protestudo bessarabica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itProtestudo through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Riabinin 1918)