Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StenoplacosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Anguidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Glyptosaurinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Glyptosaurinae
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Anthracokeryx sinensis1 site
- Anthracothema minima1 site
- Gobiolagus tolmachovi1 site
- Rencunius zhoui1 site
- Shamolagus medius1 site
- Tillodontia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis, 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- Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis, a new generic name for "Placosaurus" mongoliensis (Anguidae, Glyptosaurinae) from the Shara Murun Formation, Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China1
- Revision of the Paleogene genus Glyptosaurus (Reptilia, Anguidae)1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis 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 Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stenoplacosaurus mongoliensis 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 itStenoplacosaurus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sullivan 1979)