Libonectes morgani

Libonectes is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile belonging to the plesiosaur order. It is known from specimens found in the Britton Formation of Texas (USA) and the Akrabou Formation of Morocco, which have been dated to the lower Turonian stage of the late Cretaceous period.

Libonectes morgani

Carpenter, Kenneth · CC BY-SA 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
LibonectesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Plesiosauria
Life habit
aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Plesiosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Plesiosauria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Plesiosauria

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101 Mya89.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Libonectes morgani 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

2 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

2 formations

Britton — 32.59°N, 96.96°WAkrabou — 31.85°N, 4.93°W

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

Libonectes morgani and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Libonectes morgani and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Libonectes morgani, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Libonectes morgani

Credit
Carpenter, Kenneth
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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 itLibonectes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Welles 1949)