Dormaalisaurus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LacertidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Lacertidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Lacertidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
13 occurrences of Dormaalisaurus 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
13 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
5 formations
- Tienen Formation · Landen Group3
- Collegats Formation2
- Vaugirard Formation1
- Lignites de Soissonais Formation1
- Calcaire de Saint-Ouen Formation1
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The named rock units Dormaalisaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dormaalisaurus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dormaalisaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
257 taxa- Necrosaurus5 sites
- Amphisbaenidae4 sites
- Anguini4 sites
- Tinosaurus europeocaenus4 sites
- Arcius lapparenti3 sites
- Asiatosuchus depressifrons3 sites
- Axestemys vittata3 sites
- Diplocynodon3 sites
- Geiseltaliellus3 sites
- Geiseltaliellus longicaudus3 sites
- Gekkonidae3 sites
- Allaeochelys2 sites
- Allognathosuchus2 sites
- Amphirhagatherium louisi2 sites
- Anguidae2 sites
- Anguinae2 sites
- Anguis2 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Apatemys sigogneaui2 sites
- Arcius fuscus2 sites
- Asiatosuchus2 sites
- Blanosaurus primeocaenus2 sites
- Calamagras gallicus2 sites
- Cordylidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Dormaalisaurus, 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
5 references- Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe4
- La faune de Lacertilia (Reptilia, Squamata) de l’Éocène inférieur de Prémontré (Bassin de Paris, France)3
- Nouveaux Lacertidae (Reptilia, Squamata) de l’Eocène inférieur européen3
- Lizards and amphisbaenians (Reptilia, Squamata) from the late Eocene of Sossís (Catalonia, Spain)2
- Les rongeurs de Chéry-Chartreuve et Rocourt-Saint-Martin (est du bassin de Paris; Aisne, France). Leur place parmi les faunes de l'Eocène Moyen d'Europe1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Dormaalisaurus 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 Dormaalisaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dormaalisaurus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLacertidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Augé and Smith 2002