Hulkepholis

Hulkepholis is an extinct genus of goniopholidid neosuchian from the Early Cretaceous of southern England and eastern Spain. It contains two species, the type species, Hulkepholis willetti, and also H. plotos. Hulkepholis is most closely related to both species of Anteophthalmosuchus.

Hulkepholis

C. L. Grisbach · Public Domain · 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
GoniopholididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous138–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya113.2 Mya137.6 Mya109.6 Mya

4 occurrences of Hulkepholis 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

4 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

4 formations

Tunbridge Wells Sand — 51.02°N, 0.15°WEscucha — 41.02°N, 0.57°WCamarillas — 40.67°N, 0.67°WWadhurst Clay — 50.86°N, 0.44°E

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The named rock units Hulkepholis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Hulkepholis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

49 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hulkepholis, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 Hulkepholis

Credit
C. L. Grisbach
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hulkepholis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Buscalioni et al. 2013