Placosaurus ragei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlacosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Anguidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Glyptosaurinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Glyptosaurinae
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Placosaurus ragei 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Tienen Formation · Landen Group2
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The named rock units Placosaurus ragei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Placosaurus ragei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Placosaurus ragei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Allognathosuchus woutersi1 site
- Amphiperatherium1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Anguinae1 site
- Anguini1 site
- Apatemys1 site
- Apatemys teilhardi1 site
- Arfia gingerichi1 site
- Asiatosuchus1 site
- Asiatosuchus depressifrons1 site
- Bifurcodentodon ragei1 site
- Blanosaurus primeocaenus1 site
- Bustylus1 site
- Campinosaurus woutersi1 site
- Cordylidae1 site
- Crocodylidae1 site
- Diacodexis gigasei1 site
- Diplocynodon1 site
- Dollogekko dormaalensis1 site
- Dormaalisaurus1 site
- Dormaalisaurus girardoti1 site
- Dormaalisaurus rossmanni1 site
- Dormaalocyon latouri1 site
- Eolacerta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Placosaurus ragei, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Placosaurus ragei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Placosaurus ragei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Placosaurus ragei 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 itPlacosaurus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sullivan et al. 2012