Colpodontosaurus
No picture of Colpodontosaurus 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 Colpodontosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatynotaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.
11 occurrences of Colpodontosaurus 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
11 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
6 formations
- Oldman Formation · Belly River Group4
- Lance Formation3
- Hell Creek Formation1
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group1
- Scollard Formation1
- Straight Cliffs Formation1
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The named rock units Colpodontosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Colpodontosaurus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Colpodontosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
223 taxa- Champsosaurus8 sites
- Chelydridae8 sites
- Lepisosteus occidentalis8 sites
- Opisthotriton kayi8 sites
- Scapherpeton tectum8 sites
- Trionychidae8 sites
- Baenidae7 sites
- Myledaphus bipartitus7 sites
- Tyrannosauridae7 sites
- Anura6 sites
- Ceratopsidae6 sites
- Estesesox foxi6 sites
- Hadrosauridae6 sites
- Odaxosaurus piger6 sites
- Paronychodon6 sites
- Teleostei6 sites
- Aves5 sites
- Belonostomus longirostris5 sites
- Coriops amnicolus5 sites
- Crocodylia5 sites
- Holostei5 sites
- Multituberculata5 sites
- Paralbula casei5 sites
- Saurornitholestes langstoni5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Colpodontosaurus, 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- Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide5
- Taxonomy and evolution of Late Cretaceous lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from western Canada2
- Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming2
- Lizards and snakes from the Cenomanian through Campanian of southern Utah: filling the gap in the fossil record of Squamata from the Late Cretaceous of the Western Interior of North America1
- Lower vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, McCone County, Montana1
Each of the 11 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 Colpodontosaurus 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 Colpodontosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Colpodontosaurus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlatynota through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Estes 1964