Bernissartia

Bernissartia is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform that lived in the Early Cretaceous, around 130 million years ago.

Bernissartia

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 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
NeosuchiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 39 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 30 of 39 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 39 occurrencesLate Cretaceous153–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 3 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 5 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 5 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–111 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences149.2 Mya100.5 Mya153 Mya93 Mya

39 occurrences of Bernissartia 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

39 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

18 formations

El Castellar — 40.67°N, 0.67°WEl Castellar — 40.46°N, 0.74°WEl Castellar — 40.44°N, 0.73°WCedar Mountain — 39.05°N, 111.04°WCedar Mountain — 38.69°N, 111.26°WCedar Mountain — 38.83°N, 109.27°WWeald Clay — 50.96°N, 0.12°WWeald Clay — 52.72°N, 1.44°WAntlers — 33.28°N, 97.62°WAntlers — 34.15°N, 95.82°WAntlers — 34.40°N, 96.10°WCamarillas — 40.65°N, 0.88°WCamarillas — 40.22°N, 1.89°WArcillas de Morella — 40.49°N, 0.42°EVectis — 50.65°N, 1.47°WTwin Mountains — 32.27°N, 97.91°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WArtoles — 40.82°N, 0.28°WLa Huérguina — 40.22°N, 1.98°WLewisville — 32.84°N, 97.07°WRabekke — 55.05°N, 14.80°ESainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°ETendaguru — 9.68°S, 39.22°EBlackleaf — 44.54°N, 112.60°WEl Horcajo Unit — 42.30°N, 2.44°WAïn el Guettar — 32.68°N, 10.17°E

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The named rock units Bernissartia 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.

Bernissartia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Bernissartia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

449 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Bernissartia, 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

29 references

Each of the 39 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. 17 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 content2

Picture of Bernissartia

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

Photography scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Bernissartia fagesii · RBINS - Scientific Heritage:R:0046

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 itNeosuchia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dollo 1883