Titanochelon

Titanochelon

PePeEfe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesMiocene — about 61 of 75 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 75 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 75 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.6–8.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.8–8.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.3–6.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.2–3.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.4–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.1–274 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya274 ka

75 occurrences of Titanochelon 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

75 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

9 formations

Markygialos — 40.42°N, 22.61°EGonia — 40.42°N, 22.88°EGonia — 40.28°N, 23.13°EGonia — 40.47°N, 22.85°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.15°N, 9.88°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EOlesa-Les Fonts alluvial system — 41.54°N, 2.06°ETransitional facies between the Najera and Haro — 42.43°N, 2.48°WTriglia — 40.03°N, 23.47°EGuadix — 37.42°N, 3.17°WCigarron — 37.92°N, 1.16°WDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°E

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The named rock units Titanochelon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Titanochelon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Titanochelon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

639 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Titanochelon, 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

35 references

Each of the 75 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. 23 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Titanochelon

Credit
PePeEfe
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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. Pérez-García and Vlachos 2014