Rupelchelys breitkreutzi
No picture of Rupelchelys breitkreutzi 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 Rupelchelys breitkreutzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RupelchelysPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Chelonioidea
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Rupelchelys breitkreutzi on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Rupelchelys breitkreutzi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rupelchelys breitkreutzi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Rupelchelys breitkreutzi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Accipitridae1 site
- Amphicynodon1 site
- Antracotherium sp.1 site
- Apterodon1 site
- Bachitherium1 site
- Crocodylia indet.1 site
- Diomedeoididae1 site
- Diplocynodon1 site
- Emydidae1 site
- Kaupitherium bronni1 site
- Kaupitherium gruelli1 site
- Keasius parvus1 site
- Mysticeti1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens1 site
- Rhinocerotidae1 site
- Sirenia1 site
- Testudinidae1 site
- Trionyx boulengeri1 site
- Trionyx triunguis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Rupelchelys breitkreutzi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The first cetacean from the early Oligocene of the SW German Mainz Basin: a probable cheek tooth of a mysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea)1
- Zur Taxonomie eines neuen Tribus von Seeschildkröten aus dem Oligozän von Deutschland (Testudines: Chelonioidea)1
Each of the 2 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 Rupelchelys breitkreutzi 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 Rupelchelys breitkreutzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rupelchelys breitkreutzi 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 itRupelchelys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Karl and Tichy 1999