Araripesuchus buitreraensis

Araripesuchus is a genus of extinct crocodyliform that existed during the Cretaceous period of the late Mesozoic era some 125 to 66 million years ago. Araripesuchus is generally considered to be a notosuchian, characterized by the varied teeth types and distinct skull elements. Seven species have been referred to Araripesuchus, though it has been argued that the phylogenetic position of this genus is uncertain, and that taxonomic revision is required.

Araripesuchus buitreraensis

Sereno PC, Larsson HCE · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
AraripesuchusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At most 3.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 110.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113.7 Mya109.6 Mya

1 occurrence of Araripesuchus buitreraensis on record, most of them in the Early 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

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

Candeleros — 39.63°S, 68.70°W

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

Araripesuchus buitreraensis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Araripesuchus buitreraensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Araripesuchus buitreraensis, 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

Media content1

Picture of Araripesuchus buitreraensis

Credit
Sereno PC, Larsson HCE
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Araripesuchus buitreraensis 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.

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 itAraripesuchus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pol and Apesteguía 2005