Necrosaurus cayluxi

Necrosaurus cayluxi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NecrosaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Necrosauridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Necrosauridae

Time the record covers

At most 26 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 18 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiocene42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.5 Mya15.5 Mya

19 occurrences of Necrosaurus cayluxi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

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

Perrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EPerrière — 44.35°N, 1.73°EPerriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°EPerriere — 44.37°N, 1.73°EQuercy Phosphorites — 44.27°N, 1.63°E

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The named rock units Necrosaurus cayluxi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Necrosaurus cayluxi and its relatives

Eocene

Where Necrosaurus cayluxi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

169 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Necrosaurus cayluxi, 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

3 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Necrosaurus cayluxi

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Filhol 1873