Pliosaurus kevani

Pliosaurus kevani

Roger B. J. Benson, Mark Evans, Adam S. Smith, Judyth Sassoon, Scott Moore-Faye, Hilary F. Ketchum, Richard Forrest · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikidata/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
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 2.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 152.21 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155.3 Mya151.71 Mya

3 occurrences of Pliosaurus kevani 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

1 formation

Kimmeridge Clay — 52.35°N, 0.22°EKimmeridge Clay — 50.64°N, 2.39°WKimmeridge Clay — 52.40°N, 0.28°E

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

Pliosaurus kevani and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pliosaurus kevani, 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 kevani

Credit
Roger B. J. Benson, Mark Evans, Adam S. Smith, Judyth Sassoon, Scott Moore-Faye, Hilary F. Ketchum, Richard Forrest
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pliosaurus kevani was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itPliosaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Benson et al. 2013