Dakosaurus maximus

Dakosaurus maximus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
DakosaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Thalattosuchia

Time the record covers

At least 3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 19 of 19 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 19 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152.21 Mya149.2 Mya162 Mya142.6 Mya

19 occurrences of Dakosaurus 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

19 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

9 formations

Kimmeridge Clay — 52.40°N, 0.28°EKimmeridge Clay — 50.62°N, 2.12°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.59°N, 2.49°WMergelstetten — 48.70°N, 10.17°ETorleite — 49.01°N, 11.83°ETorleite — 50.03°N, 11.12°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.11°EArgiles de Châtillon — 50.72°N, 1.62°EReuchenette — 47.33°N, 7.64°EPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EAltmühltal — 48.93°N, 11.15°E

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The named rock units Dakosaurus maximus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dakosaurus maximus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Dakosaurus maximus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Dakosaurus maximus, 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

8 references

Each of the 19 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

Picture of Dakosaurus maximus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Dakosaurus maximus · am:paleontology:91281

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Plieninger 1846)