Yaminuechelys

Yaminuechelys is an extinct genus of chelid turtle from Argentina and the Dorotea Formation of Chile. The genus first appeared during the Late Cretaceous and became extinct during the Late Paleocene.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChelidaePBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Chelidae
Life habit
amphibious, solitaryPBDB, for Chelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Chelidae

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 36 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 41 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 4 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72.2 Mya66 Mya84.1 Mya61.2 Mya

41 occurrences of Yaminuechelys 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

41 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

8 formations

La Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.96°S, 67.53°WLa Colonia — 42.93°S, 67.54°WLa Colonia — 43.12°S, 67.70°WSalamanca — 45.27°S, 66.97°WSalamanca — 45.50°S, 67.18°WSalamanca — 45.25°S, 67.11°WAnacleto — 39.12°S, 67.67°WAnacleto — 37.39°S, 69.14°WAnacleto — 37.51°S, 68.94°WAnacleto — 39.38°S, 67.69°WDorotea — 50.71°S, 72.54°WAllen — 40.73°S, 67.17°WLos Alamitos — 41.95°S, 66.33°WRoca — 38.67°S, 67.87°WLoncoche — 36.50°S, 69.83°W

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

Yaminuechelys and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Yaminuechelys, 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

12 references

Each of the 41 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 Yaminuechelys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Yaminuechelys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Yaminuechelys 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.

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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What may have been alongside itChelidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de la Fuente et al. 2001