Meyasaurus

Meyasaurus is an extinct genus of Teiid lizard known from the Barremian of Spain and the Isle of Wight, UK. Four species are known from Spain, from the La Huérguina, Camarillas, and La Pedrera de Rúbies Formations while an indeterminate taxon is known from the Wessex Formation of Isle of Wight. It is a possible close relative of Barbatteius and other members of Barbatteiidae.

No picture of Meyasaurus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meyasaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TeiidaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Teiidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Teiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 8 of 8 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous126–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126.3 Mya120.9 Mya

8 occurrences of Meyasaurus 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

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

3 formations

Camarillas — 40.65°N, 0.88°WCamarillas — 40.22°N, 1.89°WLa Pedrera de Rúbies — 42.03°N, 0.83°ELa Pedrera de Rúbies — 42.02°N, 0.89°ELa Huérguina — 40.22°N, 1.98°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°W

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

Meyasaurus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

191 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Meyasaurus, 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

7 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 Meyasaurus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

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

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vidal 1915