Steneosaurus dasycephalus
No picture of Steneosaurus dasycephalus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Steneosaurus dasycephalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SteneosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Thalattosuchia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Steneosaurus dasycephalus on record, most of them in the Middle 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
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
- Oxford Clay Formation · Ancholme Group2
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The named rock units Steneosaurus dasycephalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Steneosaurus dasycephalus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Steneosaurus dasycephalus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Peloneustes philarchus2 sites
- Asteracanthus ornatissimus1 site
- Belemnopsis hastata1 site
- Cryptoclidus1 site
- Euaspidoceras perarmatum1 site
- Leedsichthys problematicus1 site
- Liopleurodon ferox1 site
- Metriorhynchus moreli1 site
- Muraenosaurus leedsii1 site
- Ophthalmosaurus icenicus1 site
- Pachycormus macropomus1 site
- Pliosaurus grandis1 site
- Thalattosuchus superciliosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Steneosaurus dasycephalus, 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
2 references- Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Organisation und der Anpassungserscheinungen des genus Metriorhynchus1
- Seeley, 18691
Each 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. 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
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No picture of Steneosaurus dasycephalus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Steneosaurus dasycephalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Steneosaurus dasycephalus 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 itSteneosaurus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seeley 1869