Congosaurus
No picture of Congosaurus 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 Congosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyposaurinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia
Time the record covers
At least 3.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
7 occurrences of Congosaurus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Congosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Congosaurus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Congosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Aetomylaeus dixoni3 sites
- Eotorpedo hilgendorfi2 sites
- Hyposaurinae indet.2 sites
- Rhabdognathus keiniensis2 sites
- Amiidae1 site
- Amiiformes1 site
- Asiadapis1 site
- Aves1 site
- Avitoplectus molaris1 site
- Boidae1 site
- Cambaytherium gracilis1 site
- Carettochelyidae1 site
- Coryphodontidae1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Delpitoscyllium africanum1 site
- Dyrosauridae1 site
- Eochiroptera1 site
- Eopelobates1 site
- Hyposaurus1 site
- Indoesthonyx suratensis1 site
- Madtsoiidae1 site
- Marcgodinotius indicus1 site
- Meldimys1 site
- Myliobatis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Congosaurus, 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
4 references- Taxonomic revision of the Dyrosaurid Assemblage (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Paleocene of the Iullemmeden Basin, West Africa3
- Dyrosaurs (Crocodilia, Mesosuchia) from the Paleocene Umm Himar Formation, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia2
- New early Eocene vertebrate assemblage from western India reveals a mixed fauna of European and Gondwana affinities1
- Congosaurus bequaerti, a Paleocene Dyrosaurid (Crocodyliformes; Mesoeucrocodylia) from Landana (Angola)1
Each of the 7 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
Media content2
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Congosaurus bequaerti · rmca:1741-1743, 1745, 1796, 1797, 1799, 1802, 1803, 1806, 1809-11, 1813-1819, 1822-1832 (A, B & C), 1835 (A, B & C)-1841, 1844-1846, 1848-1858, 1860-1874, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1882-1884, 1887-1896
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- EDDyLab @ULiege
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No picture of Congosaurus 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 Congosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHyposaurinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dollo 1914