Dorsetisaurus purbeckensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DorsetisaurusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 8.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 141 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 139.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149.2 Mya141 Mya155.3 Mya138.6 Mya

2 occurrences of Dorsetisaurus purbeckensis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

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

Alcobaça — 39.70°N, 8.80°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°W

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

Dorsetisaurus purbeckensis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Dorsetisaurus purbeckensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dorsetisaurus purbeckensis, 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

2 references

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Dorsetisaurus purbeckensis 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 Dorsetisaurus purbeckensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dorsetisaurus purbeckensis 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 itDorsetisaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoffstetter 1967