Blanosaurus primeocaenus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BlanosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Amphisbaenia
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Amphisbaenia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amphisbaenia
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Blanosaurus primeocaenus 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Tienen Formation · Landen Group1
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The named rock units Blanosaurus primeocaenus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Blanosaurus primeocaenus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Blanosaurus primeocaenus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
160 taxa- Anguini3 sites
- Geiseltaliellus longicaudus3 sites
- Helodermatidae3 sites
- Tinosaurus europeocaenus3 sites
- Allaeochelys2 sites
- Anguidae2 sites
- Anguinae2 sites
- Anguis2 sites
- Arcius lapparenti2 sites
- Asiatosuchus depressifrons2 sites
- Axestemys vittata2 sites
- Calamagras gallicus2 sites
- Cordylidae2 sites
- Diacodexis varleti2 sites
- Diplocynodon2 sites
- Dormaalisaurus2 sites
- Dunnophis matronensis2 sites
- Eolacerta2 sites
- Gekkonidae2 sites
- Glyptosaurinae2 sites
- Melanosaurini2 sites
- Necrosaurus2 sites
- Neochelys eocaenica2 sites
- Paraplacosauriops quercyi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Blanosaurus primeocaenus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Blanosaurus primeocaenus 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 Blanosaurus primeocaenus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Blanosaurus primeocaenus 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 itBlanosaurus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Folie et al. 2013