Enigmatosaurus
No picture of Enigmatosaurus 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 Enigmatosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PelobatidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Enigmatosaurus 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Enigmatosaurus 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.
Enigmatosaurus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Enigmatosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
169 taxa- Palaeopython cadurcensis4 sites
- Peratherium4 sites
- Placosaurus4 sites
- Suevosciurus4 sites
- Amphisbaenidae3 sites
- Gekkonidae3 sites
- Mouillacitherium elegans3 sites
- Plagiolophus annectens3 sites
- Saturninia3 sites
- Amphiperatherium minutum2 sites
- Anchilophus (Paranchilophus) jeanteti2 sites
- Anguini2 sites
- Aniliidae2 sites
- Archaeonycteris2 sites
- Blanidae2 sites
- Blanus2 sites
- Boidae2 sites
- Cadurceryx filholi2 sites
- Cadurcogekko piveteaui2 sites
- Catodontherium2 sites
- Cebochoerus robiacensis2 sites
- Chasmotherium depereti2 sites
- Dunnophis cadurcensis2 sites
- Elfomys parvulus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Enigmatosaurus, 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
2 references- Les nouvelles faunes de vertebres anterieurs a la "Grande Coupure" decouvertes dans les phosphorites du Quercy4
- Les gisements de Robiac (Eocène supérieur) et leurs faunes de Mammifères2
Each of the 6 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 Enigmatosaurus 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 Enigmatosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Enigmatosaurus 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 itPelobatidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nopcsa 1926