Dracaenosaurus

No picture of Dracaenosaurus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Dracaenosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LacertidaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Lacertidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Lacertidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 27 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 7 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38.2 Mya11.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Dracaenosaurus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

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

Córcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°WQuercy Phosphorites — 44.27°N, 1.63°E

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The named rock units Dracaenosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dracaenosaurus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Dracaenosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dracaenosaurus, 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

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 content1

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Dracaenosaurus croizeti · scanningfacility

No picture of Dracaenosaurus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Dracaenosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLacertidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1846