Waluchelys cavitesta

No picture of Waluchelys cavitesta 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 Waluchelys cavitesta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WaluchelysPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 22 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Triassic228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227.8 Mya205.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Waluchelys cavitesta on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

1 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

1 formation

Quebrada del Barro — 31.63°S, 67.27°W

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

Waluchelys cavitesta and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Waluchelys cavitesta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Waluchelys cavitesta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Waluchelys cavitesta 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 Waluchelys cavitesta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Waluchelys cavitesta 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 itWaluchelys through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sterli et al. 2020