Cryptoclidus richardsoni

Cryptoclidus richardsoni (Lydekker, 1889), a relative of Cryptoclidus richardsoni — not Cryptoclidus richardsoni itself

Not Cryptoclidus richardsoni. This is Cryptoclidus richardsoni (Lydekker, 1889), a relative — both are Cryptoclididae.

Nelson M. Richardson · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
CryptoclidusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Plesiosauria
Life habit
aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Plesiosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Plesiosauria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Plesiosauria

Time the record covers

At least 9.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya145.06 Mya165.8 Mya142.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Cryptoclidus richardsoni on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

3 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

3 formations

Oxford Clay — 50.62°N, 2.50°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.57°N, 2.45°WPortland Stone — 50.57°N, 2.45°W

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

Cryptoclidus richardsoni and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Cryptoclidus richardsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cryptoclidus richardsoni, 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

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cryptoclidus richardsoni (Lydekker, 1889)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Nelson M. Richardson
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cryptoclidus richardsoni 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 itCryptoclidus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lydekker 1889)