Carusia intermedia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarusiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Carusia intermedia 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Carusia intermedia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Carusia intermedia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Carusia intermedia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Adamisaurus magnidentatus3 sites
- Mimeosaurus crassus3 sites
- Priscagama gobiensis3 sites
- Anchaurosaurus gilmorei2 sites
- Estesia mongoliensis2 sites
- Globaura venusta2 sites
- Gobipteryx minuta2 sites
- Zalambdalestes lechei2 sites
- Allotheria1 site
- Ankylosauridae1 site
- Asioryctes nemegtensis1 site
- Bagaceratops1 site
- Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi1 site
- Basilemys1 site
- Bulganbaatar nemegtbaataroides1 site
- Carnosauria1 site
- Catopsbaatar1 site
- Catopsbaatar catopsaloides1 site
- Cherminsaurus kozlowskii1 site
- Chulsanbaatar vulgaris1 site
- Conchoraptor gracilis1 site
- Conicodontosaurus djadochtaensis1 site
- Cretagama bialynickae1 site
- Darchansaurus estesi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Carusia intermedia, 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
4 references- Systematics and taxonomic diversity of squamates from the Upper Cretaceous Djadochta Formation, Bayan Mandahu, Gobi Desert, People's Republic of China2
- Taxonomic composition and systematics of Late Cretaceous lizard assemblages from Ukhaa Tolgod and adjacent localities, Mongolian Gobi Desert1
- Taxonomic revision of Carusia (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert and phylogenetic relationships of anguimorphan lizards1
- Carolinidae, a new family of xenosaurid-like lizards from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia1
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 content1

Picture of Carusia intermedia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- BORSUK-BIALYNICKA, M.
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Carusia intermedia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itCarusia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Borsuk-Bialynicka 1985)