Toxochelyidae

Toxochelyidae

Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
ChelonioideaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Chelonioidea

Time the record covers

At least 123 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 40 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 40 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 29 of 40 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 40 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 40 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 40 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 7 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161.5 Mya37.71 Mya168 Mya31 Mya

40 occurrences of Toxochelyidae 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

40 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

19 formations

Dinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.76°WNiobrara — 38.77°N, 100.92°WNiobrara — 38.72°N, 100.70°WPaluxy — 31.87°N, 98.86°WPaluxy — 32.88°N, 97.50°WPaluxy — 32.19°N, 97.86°WBearpaw Shale — 49.45°N, 112.84°WSevern — 38.91°N, 76.85°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WMooreville Chalk — 32.87°N, 88.04°WBalabansai — 41.34°N, 72.23°EWilliamsburg — 33.43°N, 80.10°WKiowa Shale — 37.44°N, 99.08°WDabrazhin — 41.75°N, 68.52°EBrightseat — 38.89°N, 76.85°WLandana — 5.22°S, 12.14°EPahi Greensand — 36.20°S, 174.30°EHornerstown — 40.13°N, 74.51°WSaratov beds — 48.73°N, 43.98°EFox Hills — 46.38°N, 99.59°WCoffee Sand — 34.65°N, 88.57°WDemopolis — 34.58°N, 88.63°W

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The named rock units Toxochelyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Toxochelyidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Toxochelyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Toxochelyidae, 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

26 references

Each of the 40 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. 14 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 content1

Picture of Toxochelyidae

Credit
Ryan Somma
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Toxochelyidae 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 itChelonioidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baur 1895