Goniopholididae

Goniopholididae is an extinct family of moderate-sized semi-aquatic neosuchian crocodyliformes. Their bodyplan and morphology are convergent on living crocodilians. They lived across Laurasia between the Middle Jurassic and the Late Cretaceous.

Goniopholididae

Yoshida Junki, Hori Atsushi, Kobayashi Yoshitsugu, Ryan Michael J., Takakuwa Yuji and Hasegawa Yoshikazu · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
CoelognathosuchiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 212 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 212 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 14 of 212 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 82 of 212 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 95 of 212 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 212 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 212 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–193 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences193–188 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences188–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–165 Mya — about 10 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 4 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 4 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 13 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 35 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 33 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 15 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 9 occurrences133–128 Mya — about 6 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 19 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 20 occurrences119–114 Mya — about 7 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 8 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 6 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 6 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya83.6 Mya202 Mya63 Mya

212 occurrences of Goniopholididae on record, most of them in the Early 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

212 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

63 formations

Morrison — 40.42°N, 109.21°WMorrison — 41.91°N, 105.96°WMorrison — 38.54°N, 105.22°WMorrison — 41.88°N, 106.11°WMorrison — 39.68°N, 105.19°WMorrison — 41.99°N, 106.08°WMorrison — 41.97°N, 106.29°WMorrison — 38.32°N, 108.83°WMorrison — 40.44°N, 109.30°WMorrison — 39.17°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 44.46°N, 104.73°WMorrison — 38.85°N, 108.48°WMorrison — 39.24°N, 109.00°WMorrison — 36.92°N, 102.98°WMorrison — 40.50°N, 109.17°WMorrison — 37.31°N, 103.52°WMorrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 38.58°N, 108.40°WMorrison — 42.02°N, 106.05°WMorrison — 38.45°N, 107.40°WMorrison — 39.32°N, 110.69°WMorrison — 42.04°N, 106.39°WMorrison — 35.53°N, 106.90°WMorrison — 39.01°N, 111.02°WMorrison — 41.91°N, 105.95°WMorrison — 40.30°N, 108.57°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.10°N, 103.17°WAguja — 29.34°N, 103.59°WLourinhã — 39.85°N, 8.62°WLourinhã — 39.24°N, 9.34°WLourinhã — 39.29°N, 9.34°WCloverly — 44.04°N, 107.51°WCloverly — 44.65°N, 107.88°WCloverly — 44.51°N, 107.90°WCloverly — 44.50°N, 107.82°WCloverly — 44.44°N, 109.06°WCloverly — 45.49°N, 108.73°WCloverly — 45.10°N, 106.90°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WLulworth — 50.58°N, 1.95°WWeald Clay — 50.96°N, 0.12°WWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°WWeald Clay — 52.72°N, 1.44°WWeald Clay — 50.98°N, 0.20°WForest Marble — 51.87°N, 1.27°WForest Marble — 50.71°N, 2.78°WForest Marble — 50.68°N, 2.66°WForest Marble — 51.73°N, 1.98°WForest Marble — 51.51°N, 2.16°WWessex — 50.62°N, 1.37°WWessex — 50.67°N, 1.51°WWessex — 50.65°N, 1.46°WArcillas de Morella — 40.49°N, 0.42°EArcillas de Morella — 40.62°N, 0.10°WArcillas de Morella — 40.53°N, 0.29°WEl Castellar — 40.67°N, 0.67°WEl Castellar — 40.58°N, 0.69°WEl Castellar — 40.46°N, 0.74°WEl Castellar — 40.44°N, 0.73°WWadhurst Clay — 50.94°N, 0.61°EWadhurst Clay — 50.90°N, 0.51°EWadhurst Clay — 50.86°N, 0.44°EDurlston — 50.61°N, 1.95°WDurlston — 50.61°N, 1.96°WEscucha — 41.02°N, 0.57°WEscucha — 40.32°N, 0.96°WCerro del Pueblo — 26.12°N, 101.12°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.51°N, 101.34°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.50°N, 101.40°WBalabansai — 41.33°N, 72.25°EQigu — 43.55°N, 87.26°EQigu — 43.79°N, 87.55°EArundel Clay — 39.00°N, 76.92°WArundel Clay — 39.07°N, 76.87°WSao Khua — 16.89°N, 104.08°ESao Khua — 11.56°N, 102.59°ESao Khua — 17.10°N, 102.49°ECedar Mountain — 38.83°N, 109.27°WCedar Mountain — 38.66°N, 111.24°WVectis — 50.65°N, 1.47°WVectis — 50.61°N, 1.36°WKitadani — 36.12°N, 136.54°EToutunhe — 43.55°N, 87.26°EKirtland — 37.82°N, 110.35°WKirtland — 36.14°N, 108.11°WMugher Mudstone — 9.45°N, 38.62°E

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The named rock units Goniopholididae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniopholididae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Goniopholididae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,349 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 199 sites for Goniopholididae, 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

146 references

Each of the 212 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. 134 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

Media content1

Picture of Goniopholididae

Credit
Yoshida Junki, Hori Atsushi, Kobayashi Yoshitsugu, Ryan Michael J., Takakuwa Yuji and Hasegawa Yoshikazu
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Goniopholididae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itCoelognathosuchia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1875