Crocodylus aptus
No picture of Crocodylus aptus 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 Crocodylus aptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrocodylusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Crocodylus aptus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Crocodylus aptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crocodylus aptus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Crocodylus aptus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Aletornis gracilis1 site
- Aletornis pernix1 site
- Aletornis venustus1 site
- Baena arenosa1 site
- Chisternon undatum1 site
- Emys wyomingensis1 site
- Eoceornis ardetta1 site
- Glyptosaurus1 site
- Grus marshi1 site
- Hyrachyus modestus1 site
- Lithornithidae1 site
- Miacis vorax1 site
- Oreosaurus gracilis1 site
- Oreosaurus lentus1 site
- Oreosaurus microdus1 site
- Oreosaurus minutus1 site
- Orohippus agilis1 site
- Saniwa ensidens1 site
- Teiidae1 site
- Testudinoidea1 site
- Tinosaurus lepidus1 site
- Uintornis lucaris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Crocodylus aptus, 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
2 references- Palaeontological Report of the Princeton Scientific Expedition of 18771
- Notice of some extinct vertebrates from Wyoming and Dakota1
Each of the 2 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 Crocodylus aptus 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 Crocodylus aptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Crocodylus aptus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCrocodylus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1869)