Boverisuchus

Boverisuchus is an extinct genus of planocraniid crocodyliforms known from the early to middle Eocene of Germany and western North America. It was a relatively small crocodyliform with an estimated total length of approximately 2.2–3.6 metres (7.2–11.8 ft) and a weight of around 100 kilograms (220 lb).

Boverisuchus

DagdaMor · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
PlanocraniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 20 of 21 occurrencesEocene62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59.24 Mya45.9 Mya62.2 Mya37.2 Mya

21 occurrences of Boverisuchus 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

21 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

8 formations

Devil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WGreen River — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WClarno — 44.90°N, 120.20°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°W

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The named rock units Boverisuchus 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.

Boverisuchus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Boverisuchus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

393 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Boverisuchus, 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

9 references

Each of the 21 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 content2

Picture of Boverisuchus

Credit
DagdaMor
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Boverisuchus vorax · ypm:vp:000249

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlanocraniidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kuhn 1938