Trionychinae

The Trionychinae are a subfamily of turtles in the family Trionychidae.

Trionychinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
softshell turtlePBDB
Sits inside
TrionychidaePBDB
Diet
piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Trionychidae
Life habit
aquatic, solitaryPBDB, for Trionychidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trionychidae
Environment
brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Trionychidae

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 625 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 161 of 625 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 47 of 625 occurrencesEocene — about 148 of 625 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 32 of 625 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 162 of 625 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 625 occurrencesPleistocene — about 44 of 625 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 6 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 6 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–81 Mya — about 28 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 38 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 38 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 26 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 36 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 16 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 11 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 27 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 38 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 20 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 25 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 33 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 16 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 12 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 21 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 37 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 59 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 35 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 22 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 67 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

625 occurrences of Trionychinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

625 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

149 formations

Kirtland — 36.37°N, 108.57°WKirtland — 36.31°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 36.27°N, 108.17°WKirtland — 36.50°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 36.20°N, 108.10°WKirtland — 36.17°N, 107.91°WKirtland — 36.14°N, 108.11°WKirtland — 36.29°N, 108.54°WKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.26°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°EKoobi Fora — 3.77°N, 36.44°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 4.42°N, 36.25°EDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WDenver — 38.80°N, 104.80°WDenver — 38.89°N, 104.60°WDenver — 39.30°N, 104.30°WDenver — 39.63°N, 104.33°WDenver — 39.50°N, 104.70°WDenver — 38.91°N, 104.53°WDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.46°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WDinosaur Park — 49.07°N, 110.45°WBridger — 41.54°N, 109.80°WBridger — 41.60°N, 109.97°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.84°N, 110.20°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 46.09°N, 100.63°WHell Creek — 46.70°N, 100.25°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 45.23°N, 103.21°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 45.89°N, 104.55°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.50°WHell Creek — 45.87°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WJudith River — 46.47°N, 109.30°WJudith River — 46.46°N, 109.41°WJudith River — 48.93°N, 110.58°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WJudith River — 46.40°N, 109.66°WJudith River — 47.72°N, 109.64°WJudith River — 46.28°N, 109.51°WJudith River — 47.77°N, 108.95°WPondaung — 21.62°N, 94.85°EPondaung — 21.95°N, 94.53°EPondaung — 21.92°N, 94.53°EPondaung — 21.75°N, 94.68°EHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WTudela — 42.06°N, 1.55°WTudela — 42.07°N, 1.61°WBaynunah — 23.07°N, 52.53°EBaynunah — 24.18°N, 52.57°EBaynunah — 24.12°N, 52.78°EBaynunah — 24.11°N, 52.44°EBaynunah — 24.16°N, 53.01°EBaynunah — 24.00°N, 52.33°ENemegt — 43.44°N, 100.37°ENemegt — 43.87°N, 100.01°ENemegt — 43.47°N, 99.83°ENemegt — 43.82°N, 99.98°ENemegt — 43.57°N, 100.48°ENemegt — 43.54°N, 99.60°EBostobe — 45.95°N, 64.65°EBostobe — 46.48°N, 64.43°EBostobe — 46.57°N, 63.87°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.15°N, 9.88°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.92°N, 10.59°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°ETienen — 50.42°N, 4.22°ETienen — 50.70°N, 4.98°ETienen — 50.33°N, 4.28°ETienen — 50.33°N, 4.07°ENacimiento — 36.07°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 36.35°N, 108.10°WNacimiento — 36.20°N, 107.67°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°WUinta — 40.37°N, 109.64°WUinta — 40.16°N, 109.32°WUinta — 40.07°N, 109.28°WFruitland — 36.12°N, 107.78°WFruitland — 36.29°N, 108.55°WMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EMaboko — 0.13°S, 34.61°EMaboko — 0.15°N, 34.62°EFrenchman — 49.04°N, 106.60°WFrenchman — 49.40°N, 107.40°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EEibiswald — 46.69°N, 15.26°EEibiswald — 46.75°N, 15.51°EXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°W

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The named rock units Trionychinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 125 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 214 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trionychinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Trionychinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,629 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 557 sites for Trionychinae, and this reads 240 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

241 references

Each of the 625 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. 229 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 Trionychinae

Credit
Bastet78
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1825)