Goniopholis crassidens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GoniopholisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 119.57 Mya.
7 occurrences of Goniopholis crassidens 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
7 occurrences- Early 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.
Found in
5 formations
- Vectis Formation · Wealden Group1
- El Castellar Formation1
- Wadhurst Clay Formation · Wealden Group1
- Durlston Formation · Purbeck Group1
- Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation · Wealden Group1
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The named rock units Goniopholis crassidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Goniopholis crassidens and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Goniopholis crassidens and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Iguanodon3 sites
- Lepidotes3 sites
- Bernissartia2 sites
- Hylaeosaurus2 sites
- Testudines2 sites
- Anura1 site
- Arca1 site
- Baryonychinae1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Cetiosauridae1 site
- Chara1 site
- Cypris1 site
- Cytherea1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Elasmobranchii1 site
- Euornithopoda1 site
- Flabularia sp.1 site
- Hybodus1 site
- Hydrobia1 site
- Hypselospinus fittoni1 site
- Hypsilophodon1 site
- Ichthyosaurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Goniopholis crassidens, 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
7 references- Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England - Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" - and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere1
- Benton and Spencer, 19951
- Cocodrilos del Cretacico Inferior de Galve (Teruel, España)1
- The crocodilian Bernissartia in the Wealden of the Isle of Wight1
- Excursion to Swindon and Faringdon. June 5th (Whit-Monday), and following day1
- Descriptive catalogue of the Fossil organic remains of Reptilia and Pisces contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England1
- Report on British fossil reptiles, part II1
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Goniopholis crassidens
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Goniopholis crassidens 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGoniopholis through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1842