Crocodylus

Crocodylus is a genus of true crocodiles in the family Crocodylidae.

A picture published with the record for Crocodylus.

A.Savin · FAL · 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
Also called
crocodilePBDB
Sits inside
CrocodylinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 328 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 328 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 38 of 328 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 328 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 63 of 328 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 45 of 328 occurrencesPleistocene — about 153 of 328 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 13 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 12 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 8 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 13 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 21 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 42 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 182 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

328 occurrences of Crocodylus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

328 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

65 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.27°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°EKoobi Fora — 3.77°N, 36.44°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 4.08°N, 36.35°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.35°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EBridger — 42.37°N, 108.91°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.04°N, 110.23°WGreen River — 41.80°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 41.20°N, 110.50°WGreen River — 40.50°N, 110.00°WHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°ENachukui — 4.19°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.70°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EMaboko — 0.13°S, 34.61°EMaboko — 0.15°N, 34.62°EOlorgesailie — 1.58°S, 36.43°EIrrawaddy — 20.13°N, 94.89°EIrrawaddy — 20.17°N, 94.92°EIrrawaddy — 21.09°N, 94.79°EKapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°EPiram Conglomerate — 21.62°N, 72.38°EChemoigut — 0.65°N, 36.20°EWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WJebel Qatrani — 29.64°N, 30.58°ETatrot — 30.68°N, 77.00°ETatrot — 28.45°N, 77.64°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EChiwondo — 10.05°S, 33.96°EWehaietu — 10.63°N, 40.54°EWehaietu — 10.90°N, 40.47°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EOtibanda — 7.25°S, 146.50°EBeglia — 34.33°N, 8.41°EBeglia — 34.20°N, 8.70°EBaynunah — 24.16°N, 53.01°ESahabi — 30.50°N, 17.50°ESahabi — 30.14°N, 20.75°E

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The named rock units Crocodylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 131 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crocodylus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Crocodylus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,059 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 280 sites for Crocodylus, and this reads 240 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

155 references

Each of the 328 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. 143 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 content3

Picture of Crocodylus

Credit
A.Savin
Licence
FAL
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Crocodylus niloticus · BRSUG:28959

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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