Pliosaurus grossouvrei

Pliosaurus grossouvrei (Sauvage, 1873), a relative of Pliosaurus grossouvrei — not Pliosaurus grossouvrei itself

Not Pliosaurus grossouvrei. This is Pliosaurus grossouvrei (Sauvage, 1873), a relative — both are Pliosauridae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PliosaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pliosauroidea

Time the record covers

At most 6.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162 Mya154.3 Mya

3 occurrences of Pliosaurus grossouvrei on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

3 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

2 formations

Coral Rag — 54.13°N, 0.80°WCoral Rag — 51.75°N, 1.13°WCoralline Oolite — 51.76°N, 1.20°W

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

Pliosaurus grossouvrei and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pliosaurus grossouvrei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pliosaurus grossouvrei, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Pliosaurus grossouvrei (Sauvage, 1873)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pliosaurus grossouvrei 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 itPliosaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sauvage 1873)