Thescelus insiliens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThescelusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Thescelus insiliens on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Lance Formation2
- Hell Creek Formation · Montana Group1
- Frenchman Formation1
- Mesaverde Formation1
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The named rock units Thescelus insiliens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thescelus insiliens and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Thescelus insiliens and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Ankylosaurus magniventris2 sites
- Amia fragosa1 site
- Amia uintaensis1 site
- Belonostomus longirostris1 site
- Borealosuchus sternbergii1 site
- Brachychampsa montana1 site
- Chamops segnis1 site
- Chirostenotes1 site
- Coeluridae1 site
- Edmontosaurus annectens1 site
- Essonodon browni1 site
- Eubaena hatcheri1 site
- Gypsonictops illuminatus1 site
- Habrosaurus dilatus1 site
- Hayemys latifrons1 site
- Iguanodontidae1 site
- Lepisosteus occidentalis1 site
- Lonchidion selachos1 site
- Meniscoessus robustus1 site
- Mesodma thompsoni1 site
- Myledaphus pustulosus1 site
- Odaxosaurus piger1 site
- Opisthotriton kayi1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Thescelus insiliens, 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
3 references- The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira)3
- Non-dinosaurian lower vertebrates across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana1
- The fossil turtles of North America1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Thescelus insiliens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Thescelus insiliens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thescelus insiliens was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itThescelus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hay 1908