Metaceratodus baibianorum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetaceratodusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Metaceratodus baibianorum 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
19 occurrences- Late 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Metaceratodus baibianorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metaceratodus baibianorum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Metaceratodus baibianorum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Chelidae13 sites
- Yaminuechelys9 sites
- Teleostei5 sites
- Meiolaniformes4 sites
- Decapoda3 sites
- Dinosauria3 sites
- Testudines3 sites
- Lepisosteidae2 sites
- Plesiosauria2 sites
- Abelisauridae1 site
- Amiformes indet.1 site
- Aspidorhynchidae1 site
- Dryolestoidea1 site
- Elasmosauridae1 site
- Holostei1 site
- Patagoniaemys gasparinae1 site
- Sulcusuchus erraini1 site
- Yaminuechelys sulcipeculiaris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Metaceratodus baibianorum, 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- The end of the dinosaur era in Patagonia (NatGeo Project)16
- Metaceratodus baibianorum, a new dipnoan species from the Upper Cretaceous of southern South America supported by traditional and geometric morphometric analyses3
Each of the 19 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
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No picture of Metaceratodus baibianorum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Metaceratodus baibianorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metaceratodus baibianorum 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 itMetaceratodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Panzeri et al. 2020