Taphrosphys sulcatus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TaphrosphysPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Pleurodira
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Pleurodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Pleurodira

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 10 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesPaleocene72–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72.7 Mya61.2 Mya

13 occurrences of Taphrosphys sulcatus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

13 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

Hornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WHornerstown — 39.98°N, 74.71°WHornerstown — 40.12°N, 74.55°WHornerstown — 39.90°N, 74.82°WHornerstown — 40.30°N, 74.10°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.16°WNew Egypt — 40.25°N, 74.12°WNew Egypt — 39.73°N, 75.16°W

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

Taphrosphys sulcatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Taphrosphys sulcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

119 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Taphrosphys sulcatus, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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 Taphrosphys sulcatus 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 Taphrosphys sulcatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Taphrosphys sulcatus 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 itTaphrosphys through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1856)