Cretorectolobus

No picture of Cretorectolobus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Cretorectolobus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrectolobidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 12 of 58 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 46 of 58 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 58 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 6 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 6 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 6 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 6 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence125.77 Mya72.2 Mya134 Mya65 Mya

58 occurrences of Cretorectolobus 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

58 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

16 formations

Mesaverde — 44.08°N, 107.74°WMesaverde — 44.10°N, 107.75°WMesaverde — 44.17°N, 107.81°WJudith River — 48.03°N, 109.01°WJudith River — 47.79°N, 108.94°WJudith River — 48.01°N, 108.91°WJudith River — 48.25°N, 109.30°WJudith River — 47.74°N, 108.96°WJudith River — 48.07°N, 108.93°WSpeeton Clay — 54.16°N, 0.24°WSpeeton Clay — 54.16°N, 0.26°WFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.32°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.36°WHunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WHunstanton — 53.68°N, 0.50°WCedar Mountain — 39.05°N, 111.04°WAguja — 28.94°N, 103.37°WJudith River — 49.10°N, 109.50°WKemp Clay — 33.21°N, 95.92°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WLewisville — 32.88°N, 97.07°WGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WTar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WEstratos de Quebrada Municipalidad — 33.37°S, 71.67°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.10°W

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The named rock units Cretorectolobus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cretorectolobus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cretorectolobus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

430 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Cretorectolobus, 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

26 references

Each of the 58 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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 Cretorectolobus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Cretorectolobus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cretorectolobus 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 itOrectolobidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Case 1978