Suchoolithus portucalensis

Suchoolithus is an oogenus of crocodylomorph eggs from the late Jurassic of Portugal. They are notable for their small size, and for being among the oldest known crocodylomorph eggs.

A picture published with the record for Suchoolithus portucalensis. What it shows has not been checked.

Russo J, Mateus O, Marzola M, Balbino A · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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.

Time the record covers

At most 6.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 143.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Suchoolithus portucalensis 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

Freixial — 39.09°N, 9.40°W

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

Suchoolithus portucalensis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Suchoolithus portucalensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Suchoolithus portucalensis, 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

Media content1

Picture of Suchoolithus portucalensis

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Russo J, Mateus O, Marzola M, Balbino A
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No 3D scan of Suchoolithus portucalensis 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.