Carinodens belgicus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarinodensPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Carinodens belgicus 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
10 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Carinodens belgicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Carinodens belgicus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Carinodens belgicus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Dinosauria2 sites
- Mosasauridae2 sites
- Testudines2 sites
- Avicula1 site
- Baculites vertebralis1 site
- Birgelenocrinus degraafi1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Calcarichelys1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Chelonia hoffmanni1 site
- Chimaeridae1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cretorectolobus1 site
- Diploctenium1 site
- Elasmobranchii1 site
- Elasmosauridae1 site
- Epapatelo otyikokolo1 site
- Euclastes1 site
- Faujasia apicalis1 site
- Gastrochaenolites1 site
- Globidens phosphaticus1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Carinodens belgicus, 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
6 references- The first North American record of Carinodens belgicus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) and correlation with the youngest in situ examples from the Maastrichtian type area: palaeoecological implications4
- First record of the Late Cretaceous durophagous mosaasaur Carinodens belgicus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from Volgogradskaya Oblast (Russia) and Crimea (Ukraine)2
- Two rare mosasaurs from the Maastrichtian of Angola and the Netherlands1
- Latest Cretaceous mosasaurs and lamniform sharks from Labirinta cave, Vratsa district (northwest Bulgaria): a preliminary note1
- Durophagous Mosasauridae (Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, with description of a new species of Globidens1
- New material of the mosasaur Carinodens belgicus from the Upper Cretaceous of the Netherlands1
Each of the 10 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.
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No picture of Carinodens belgicus 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 Carinodens belgicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Carinodens belgicus 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 itCarinodens through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woodward 1891)