Edentosuchus tienshanensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EdentosuchusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 37 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Edentosuchus tienshanensis on record, most of them in the Early 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
3 occurrences- Early 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
- Lianmuqin Formation · Tugulu Group2
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The named rock units Edentosuchus tienshanensis 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 tienshanensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Edentosuchus tienshanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Noripterus complicidens2 sites
- Wuerhosaurus homheni2 sites
- Xinjiangchelys2 sites
- Camarasauridae1 site
- Crocodyliformes1 site
- Dsungaripterus weii1 site
- Kelmayisaurus petrolicus1 site
- Ordosemys brinkmania1 site
- Pantrionychia1 site
- Plesiosauria1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
- Tetanurae1 site
- Tugulusaurus faciles1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Edentosuchus tienshanensis, 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- [A new fossil crocodile from Wuerho]2
- Basal crocodyliforms from the Lower Cretaceous Tugulu Group (Xinjiang, China), and the phylogenetic position of Edentosuchus1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Edentosuchus tienshanensis 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 tienshanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Edentosuchus tienshanensis 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 itEdentosuchus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1973