Thalattosuchus superciliosus

Thalattosuchus superciliosus

via GBIF · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ThalattosuchusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Thalattosuchia

Time the record covers

At least 6.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 5 of 7 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 7 occurrencesLate Jurassic166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161.5 Mya154.8 Mya165.8 Mya148.7 Mya

7 occurrences of Thalattosuchus superciliosus on record. 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

7 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

4 formations

Oxford Clay — 52.57°N, 0.23°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.25°N, 2.16°WArgiles de Montaubert — 50.73°N, 1.84°EMarnes à Deltoideum delta — 49.52°N, 0.10°E

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The named rock units Thalattosuchus superciliosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Thalattosuchus superciliosus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

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

7 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content3

Picture of Thalattosuchus superciliosus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Thalattosuchus superciliosus · camsm:J65414

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itThalattosuchus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Blainville 1853)