Dolichosaurus longicollis
No picture of Dolichosaurus longicollis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Dolichosaurus longicollis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DolichosaurusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dolichosaurus longicollis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Dolichosaurus longicollis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dolichosaurus longicollis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Cimoliasaurus2 sites
- Mosasaurus2 sites
- Ornithocheiridae2 sites
- Plesiosauria2 sites
- Protostega2 sites
- Chelone1 site
- Chelonioidea1 site
- Cimochelys benstedi1 site
- Cimoliopterus cuvieri1 site
- Elasmodectes willettii1 site
- Elasmosauridae1 site
- Lonchodectes compressirostris1 site
- Lonchodraco giganteus1 site
- Mosasaurus gracilis1 site
- Puppigerus camperi1 site
- Rhinochelys1 site
- Testudinata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dolichosaurus longicollis, 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- On the aquatic squamate Dolichosaurus longicollis (Cenomanian, Upper Cretaceous), and the evolution of elongate necks in squamates1
- Descriptions of the fossils of the Chalk Formation. Description of the fossil reptiles of the Chalk Formation1
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 Dolichosaurus longicollis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Dolichosaurus longicollis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dolichosaurus longicollis 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 itDolichosaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1850