Dacosaurus maximus
No picture of Dacosaurus maximus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dacosaurus maximus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 152.21 Mya and 149.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Dacosaurus maximus 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
1 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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.
Dacosaurus maximus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Dacosaurus maximus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Asteracanthus1 site
- Athrodon boloniensis1 site
- Caturus1 site
- Gyrodus1 site
- Gyrodus cuvieri1 site
- Hybodus acutus1 site
- Hypsocormus1 site
- Ichthyosaurus1 site
- Ischyodus1 site
- Lepidotes1 site
- Machimosaurus hugii1 site
- Mesodon1 site
- Metriorhynchus hastifer1 site
- Microdon1 site
- Ophthalmosaurus1 site
- Orthacanthus1 site
- Plesiochelys etalloni1 site
- Plesiosaurus1 site
- Pterosauria1 site
- Pycnodontidae1 site
- Scheenstia laevis1 site
- Scheenstia maximus1 site
- Steneosaurus1 site
- Tropidemys langii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dacosaurus maximus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Dacosaurus maximus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dacosaurus maximus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
No 3D scan of Dacosaurus maximus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sauvage 1871