Dakosaurus andiniensis

Dakosaurus andiniensis

Uncredited · 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
DakosaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Thalattosuchia

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149.7 Mya136.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Dakosaurus andiniensis on record, most of them in the Early 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

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

1 formation

Vaca Muerta — 36.30°S, 69.50°WVaca Muerta — 37.30°S, 69.80°WVaca Muerta — 39.19°S, 69.67°WVaca Muerta — 37.11°S, 69.48°W

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The named rock units Dakosaurus andiniensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dakosaurus andiniensis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Dakosaurus andiniensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dakosaurus andiniensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dakosaurus andiniensis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Dakosaurus andiniensis 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.

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What may have been alongside itDakosaurus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vignaud and Gasparini 1996