Tinosaurus
No picture of Tinosaurus 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 Tinosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AgamidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
39 occurrences of Tinosaurus 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
39 occurrencesThese 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
18 formations
- Friars Formation · La Jolla Group8
- Bridger Formation4
- Wasatch Formation3
- Hsanda Gol Formation3
- Lignites de Soissonais Formation3
- Cambay Shale Formation2
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The named rock units Tinosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tinosaurus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tinosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
753 taxa- Glyptosaurinae13 sites
- Microparamys minutus9 sites
- Trionychidae8 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti7 sites
- Metanoiamys agorus7 sites
- Parasauromalus olseni7 sites
- Sciuravus powayensis7 sites
- Uintasorex montezumicus7 sites
- Apatemys6 sites
- Centetodon aztecus6 sites
- Crypholestes vaughni6 sites
- Melanosaurini6 sites
- Miacidae6 sites
- Omomyidae6 sites
- Peradectes californicus6 sites
- Washakius woodringi6 sites
- Aethomylos simplicidens5 sites
- Amphisbaenidae5 sites
- Arcius lapparenti5 sites
- Axestemys vittata5 sites
- Calamagras gallicus5 sites
- Diacodexis varleti5 sites
- Diplocynodon5 sites
- Dunnophis matronensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Tinosaurus, 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
22 references- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California9
- Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe7
- Early Eocene lizards of the Wasatch Formation near Bitter Creek, Wyoming: diversity and paleoenvironment during an interval of global warming2
- 3. Herpetofauna (Anura, Squamata) and palaeoclimatic implications: preliminary results2
- Preliminary description of new Tertiary reptiles. Part I and Part II2
- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)1
- New early Eocene vertebrate assemblage from western India reveals a mixed fauna of European and Gondwana affinities1
- Agamid lizards from the Early Eocene of western India: oldest Cenozoic lizards from South Asia1
- A diverse new assemblage of late Eocene squamates (Reptilia) from the Chadron Formation of North Dakota, U.S.A.1
- Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the lower Eocene of Silveirinha (Portugal)1
- Basin margins, biodiversity, evolutionary innovation, and the origin of new taxa1
- Taphonomy, Fauna, and Depositional Environment of the Omomys Quarry, an Unusual Accumulation From the Bridger Formation (Middle Eocene) of Southwestern Wyoming (USA)1
Each of the 39 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Tinosaurus 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 Tinosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tinosaurus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAgamidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Estes 1783