Pliosaurus patagonicus

No picture of Pliosaurus patagonicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pliosaurus patagonicus itself, so it was not used. 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 Pliosaurus patagonicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 4.2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Jurassic149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149.7 Mya144.6 Mya

1 occurrence of Pliosaurus patagonicus 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

1 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

Vaca Muerta — 39.19°S, 69.67°W

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

Pliosaurus patagonicus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pliosaurus patagonicus, 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 1 occurrence 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 Pliosaurus patagonicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pliosaurus patagonicus itself, so it was not used.

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 Pliosaurus patagonicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pliosaurus patagonicus 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. Gasparini and O'Gorman 2014