Shweboemys

No picture of Shweboemys 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 Shweboemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 78 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89.8 Mya11.63 Mya96 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Shweboemys 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

3 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

2 formations

Irrawaddy — 22.52°N, 95.07°EIrrawaddy — 19.18°N, 95.52°EKunnam — 11.23°N, 78.99°E

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The named rock units Shweboemys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Shweboemys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Shweboemys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Shweboemys, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Shweboemys pilgrimi · NHMUK:PAL:PV R 8432

No picture of Shweboemys 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 Shweboemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPodocnemididae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swinton 1939