Edentosuchus

Edentosuchus is a genus of protosuchian crocodyliform. It is known from fossils found in rocks of the Early Cretaceous-age Tugulu Group from the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. Two partial skulls and several neck vertebrae are known to date. An articulated partial postcranial skeleton may also belong to this genus, but there is no overlapping material between it and known Edentosuchus specimens.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtosuchidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 3 of 6 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrences201–198 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences198–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences191–188 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences188–184 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences184–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya137.05 Mya201 Mya99 Mya

6 occurrences of Edentosuchus on record, most of them in the Early 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

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

2 formations

Kayenta — 36.07°N, 111.27°WKayenta — 35.97°N, 111.25°WLianmuqin — 46.04°N, 85.79°ELianmuqin — 46.10°N, 85.67°E

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The named rock units Edentosuchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Edentosuchus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Edentosuchus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Edentosuchus, 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

3 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. 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

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Licence
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Specimen
Edentosuchus tienshanensis · ivpp:v:3236

No picture of Edentosuchus 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 Edentosuchus, 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProtosuchidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1973