Plesiobaena antiqua

Plesiobaena antiqua (Lambe, 1902), a relative of Plesiobaena antiqua — not Plesiobaena antiqua itself

Not Plesiobaena antiqua. This is Plesiobaena antiqua (Lambe, 1902), a relative — both are Baenidae.

Canadian Museum of Nature · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
PlesiobaenaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 63.4 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 23 of 25 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 25 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72.2 Mya66 Mya84.1 Mya62.9 Mya

25 occurrences of Plesiobaena antiqua 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

25 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

8 formations

Hell Creek — 46.03°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 46.45°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.00°WHell Creek — 46.36°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.28°WOldman — 49.30°N, 110.60°WOldman — 50.80°N, 111.62°WOldman — 50.72°N, 111.53°WJudith River — 45.82°N, 111.63°WJudith River — 47.87°N, 107.26°WDinosaur Park — 49.30°N, 110.60°WLaramie — 40.91°N, 104.76°WDenver — 39.50°N, 104.70°WWapiti — 55.07°N, 118.69°WFort Union — 47.70°N, 105.80°W

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The named rock units Plesiobaena antiqua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plesiobaena antiqua and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Plesiobaena antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Plesiobaena antiqua, 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

9 references

Each of the 25 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 content2

Picture of Plesiobaena antiqua (Lambe, 1902)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Canadian Museum of Nature
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Plesiobaena antiqua · tmp:1982.019.0025

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPlesiobaena through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lambe 1902)