Titanochelon richardi
No picture of Titanochelon richardi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Titanochelon richardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TitanochelonPBDB
- 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 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.75 Mya and 8.725 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Titanochelon richardi 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Titanochelon richardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Titanochelon richardi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Titanochelon richardi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Albanensia albanensis1 site
- Bransatoglis1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Copemys1 site
- Cricetodon1 site
- Deinotherium giganteum1 site
- Democricetodon gaillardi1 site
- Dorcatherium1 site
- Erinaceidae1 site
- Eumyarion1 site
- Euprox furcatus1 site
- Glirudinus undosus1 site
- Hippotherium1 site
- Listriodon splendens1 site
- Megacricetodon minor1 site
- Microdyromys complicatus1 site
- Miotragocerus pannoniae1 site
- Muscardinus sansaniensis1 site
- Paleotestudo antiqua1 site
- Paraglirulus werenfelsi1 site
- Pierolapithecus catalaunicus1 site
- Proboscidea1 site
- Ptychogaster1 site
- Rhinocerotidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Titanochelon richardi, 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
4 references- Can Pallars i Llobateres: A new hominoid-bearing locality from the late Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)2
- New remains of Titanochelon richardi (Testudines, Testudinidae) from the Upper Miocene of the Vallès‐Penedès Basin: taxonomic and phylogenetic implications1
- Tipos depositados en la Sala de las Turtugas de la Universidad de Salamanca1
- Chéloniens fossiles d´Espagne1
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
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No picture of Titanochelon richardi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Titanochelon richardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Titanochelon richardi 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 itTitanochelon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bergounioux 1938)