Globidensini

The Globidensini or Globidentatini are a tribe of mosasaurine mosasaurs, a diverse group of Late Cretaceous marine squamates. Members of the tribe, known as "globidensins" or "globidensine mosasaurs", have been recovered from North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The tribe contains the genera Globidens, Carinodens, Igdamanosaurus, Harranasaurus and Xenodens. Features of the maxilla and digits make the placement of Carinodens and Xenodens in the tribe uncertain; some researchers have suggested that they may be more appropriately placed in the Mosasaurini.

Globidensini

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MosasaurinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Mosasauridae
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Mosasauridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Mosasauridae
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 145 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 145 of 145 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 145 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 6 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 7 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 7 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 7 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 7 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 11 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 19 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 19 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 19 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 19 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

145 occurrences of Globidensini 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

145 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

54 formations

Maastricht — 50.82°N, 5.68°EMaastricht — 50.87°N, 5.77°EPierre Shale — 43.46°N, 103.31°WPierre Shale — 43.53°N, 103.05°WPierre Shale — 43.47°N, 102.75°WPierre Shale — 44.19°N, 99.70°WPierre Shale — 43.58°N, 103.20°WPierre Shale — 39.01°N, 101.37°WGramame — 7.25°S, 34.80°WGramame — 7.60°S, 34.89°WGramame — 7.73°S, 34.83°WMocuio — 14.27°S, 12.38°EBearpaw Shale — 49.63°N, 110.85°WBearpaw Shale — 49.68°N, 112.83°WBearpaw Shale — 51.26°N, 112.32°WTorme — 42.67°N, 2.63°WWolfe City/Sprinkle — 33.45°N, 95.95°WWolfe City/Sprinkle — 33.15°N, 96.35°WWolfe City/Sprinkle — 33.48°N, 95.77°WSpiennes Chalk — 50.42°N, 3.98°EJagüel — 39.85°S, 66.68°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WNavesink — 39.97°N, 74.68°WSevern — 38.91°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.96°N, 76.71°WCouche III — 32.88°N, 6.62°WCouche III — 32.83°N, 6.23°WGulpen — 50.82°N, 5.68°EPhosphorite Unit — 32.02°N, 36.03°ENew Egypt — 40.25°N, 74.12°WNew Egypt — 39.73°N, 75.16°WPhosphates — 32.88°N, 6.63°WBaculites Limestone — 49.42°N, 1.52°WBaculites Limestone — 49.43°N, 1.35°WCiply-Malogne — 50.42°N, 3.99°EStevns Klint — 55.33°N, 12.45°EMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WBlufftown — 32.16°N, 85.03°WTar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRybushka — 51.35°N, 45.04°E

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The named rock units Globidensini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Globidensini and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Globidensini and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

989 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Globidensini, 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

82 references

Each of the 145 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. 70 further references are not listed. 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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Picture of Globidensini

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Russell 1967