Deinosuchus hatcheri

Connor Ashbridge · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- DeinosuchusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Deinosuchus hatcheri 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
2 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
2 formations
- Judith River Formation · Montana Group1
- Kaiparowits Formation1
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The named rock units Deinosuchus hatcheri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Deinosuchus hatcheri and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Deinosuchus hatcheri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Acipenseriformes1 site
- Adocus1 site
- Aspideretoides1 site
- Boremys1 site
- Cupressaceae1 site
- Gilmoremys gettyspherensis1 site
- Hadrosauridae1 site
- Helopanoplia1 site
- Hutchemys1 site
- Lepisosteus1 site
- Melvius1 site
- Myledaphus bipartitus1 site
- Neurankylus baueri1 site
- Ornithischia1 site
- Panchelonioidea1 site
- Paraves1 site
- Pinaceae1 site
- Podocarpaceae1 site
- Teleostei1 site
- Teratophoneus curriei1 site
- Tyrannosaurus1 site
- Unionidae1 site
- Viviparus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Deinosuchus hatcheri, 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
2 references- Geology and taphonomy of a unique tyrannosaurid bonebed from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah: implications for tyrannosaurid gregariousness1
- Evidence of a giant tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (?Campanian) of Montana1
Each of the 2 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 Deinosuchus hatcheri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Connor Ashbridge
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Deinosuchus hatcheri 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 itDeinosuchus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Holland 1909)