Zholsuchus

Zholsuchus is a genus of crocodyliform that may have been a goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian, but is only known from scanty material. This specimen was found in the Turonian-age Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Dzharakhuduk, Uzbekistan. Zholsuchus was described in 1989 by Lev Nessov and colleagues. The type species is Z. procevus.

No picture of Zholsuchus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Zholsuchus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrocodyliaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 8.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya85.7 Mya101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

4 occurrences of Zholsuchus 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

4 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

Bissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EBostobe — 46.57°N, 63.87°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EZhirkindek — 46.22°N, 64.15°E

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

Zholsuchus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Zholsuchus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Zholsuchus, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Zholsuchus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Zholsuchus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Nesov et al. 1989