Dicothodon bajaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DicothodonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Dicothodon
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
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.
7 occurrences of Dicothodon bajaensis 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
7 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Dicothodon bajaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dicothodon bajaensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dicothodon bajaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Naomichelys2 sites
- Albanerpetontidae1 site
- Alligatoridae1 site
- Anura1 site
- Atoposauridae1 site
- Aves1 site
- Brachychampsa1 site
- Crocodylomorpha1 site
- Exostinus1 site
- Gallolestes pachymandibularis1 site
- Globiodonta <indet. B>1 site
- Leidyosuchus1 site
- Lepisosteidae1 site
- Maniraptora1 site
- Mesodma formosa1 site
- Mesoeucrocodylia1 site
- Palaeosaniwa canadensis1 site
- Paralbulinae1 site
- Pediomyidae1 site
- Ptychotrygon1 site
- Richardoestesia1 site
- Saurornitholestinae1 site
- Scotiophryne1 site
- Squamata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Dicothodon bajaensis, 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
3 references- New data on the Late Cretaceous lizard Dicothodon bajaensis (Squamata, Borioteiioidea) from Baja California, Mexico reveals an unusual tooth replacement pattern in squamates4
- Polyglyphanodontinae (Squamata: Teiidae) from the medial and Late Cretaceous: new taxa from Utah, U.S.A. and Baja California del Norte, Mexico2
- Microvertebrados Cretácicos Tardíos del Área de El Rosario, Baja California, México [Late Cretaceous microvertebrates from the El Rosario area, Baja California, Mexico]1
Each of the 7 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 Dicothodon bajaensis 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 Dicothodon bajaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dicothodon bajaensis 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 itDicothodon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nydam 1999)