Champsosaurus gigas

Champsosaurus gigas

Larry Koester · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
ChampsosaurusPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Champsosaurus
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Champsosaurus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Champsosaurus

Time the record covers

At most 4.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 60.9 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 6 of 6 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.4 Mya55.5 Mya

6 occurrences of Champsosaurus gigas on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

6 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

3 formations

Bullion Creek — 47.05°N, 103.66°WFort Union — 47.00°N, 103.87°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°W

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The named rock units Champsosaurus gigas 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.

Champsosaurus gigas and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Champsosaurus gigas and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

98 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Champsosaurus gigas, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 Champsosaurus gigas

Credit
Larry Koester
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Champsosaurus gigas 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.

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What may have been alongside itChampsosaurus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Erickson 1972