Liopleurodon ferox

No picture of Liopleurodon ferox was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Liopleurodon ferox, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LiopleurodonPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pliosauroidea

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 7 of 8 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesLate Jurassic165–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165.8 Mya154.3 Mya

8 occurrences of Liopleurodon ferox on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

8 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

Oxford Clay — 52.57°N, 0.23°WOxford Clay — 50.61°N, 2.45°WOxford Clay — 51.50°N, 2.06°WOxford Clay — 52.55°N, 0.12°WOxford Clay — 50.75°N, 1.80°EMarnes de Dives — 49.33°N, 0.00°EArgiles de Montaubert — 50.73°N, 1.84°E

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

Liopleurodon ferox and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Liopleurodon ferox and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Liopleurodon ferox, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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 content0

No picture of Liopleurodon ferox was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Liopleurodon ferox, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Liopleurodon ferox was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLiopleurodon through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sauvage 1873)