Monjurosuchus

Monjurosuchus is a genus of choristoderan reptile that lived in what is now China and Japan during the Early Cretaceous. It has large eyes, a rounded skull, robust legs with short claws, and a long, thin tail. Fossils have been found that preserve soft tissue, showing that it had soft skin and webbed feet.

Monjurosuchus

Tiouraren (Y.-C. Tsai) · 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
ChoristoderaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 30 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous144–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143.7 Mya112.6 Mya

7 occurrences of Monjurosuchus 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

7 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

Yixian — 41.13°N, 121.14°EYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EYixian — 41.37°N, 121.42°EYixian — 41.00°N, 119.40°EYixian — 40.97°N, 120.94°EOkurodani — 36.05°N, 136.88°EKuwajima — 36.17°N, 136.63°E

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

Monjurosuchus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Monjurosuchus, 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 7 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 Monjurosuchus

Credit
Tiouraren (Y.-C. Tsai)
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Monjurosuchus 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.

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 itChoristodera through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Endo 1940