Mawsonia gigas

Mawsonia gigas

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
MawsoniaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 6 of 13 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences146–143 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–112 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143.1 Mya100.5 Mya176 Mya92 Mya

13 occurrences of Mawsonia gigas 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

13 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

6 formations

Brejo Santo — 7.25°S, 39.12°WBrejo Santo — 7.50°S, 39.00°WBrejo Santo — 7.17°S, 39.31°WRomualdo — 7.52°S, 39.57°WRomualdo — 7.51°S, 39.55°WRomualdo — 7.47°S, 39.76°WSalvador — 12.78°S, 38.43°WAlcântara — 2.48°S, 44.46°WMissão Velha — 7.26°S, 39.14°WAliança — 8.56°S, 37.54°W

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The named rock units Mawsonia gigas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mawsonia gigas and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Mawsonia gigas and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Mawsonia gigas, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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 Mawsonia gigas

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mawson and Woodward 1907