Eremiasaurus heterodontus
No picture of Eremiasaurus heterodontus 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 Eremiasaurus heterodontus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EremiasaurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Eremiasaurus heterodontus 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
2 formations
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Eremiasaurus heterodontus 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.
Eremiasaurus heterodontus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Eremiasaurus heterodontus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Cretalamna maroccana6 sites
- Halisaurus arambourgi6 sites
- Plioplatecarpinae6 sites
- Bothremydidae5 sites
- Chelonioidea5 sites
- Ctenopristis nougareti5 sites
- Ganopristis leptodon5 sites
- Globidens phosphaticus5 sites
- Prognathodon currii5 sites
- Squalicorax pristodontus5 sites
- Stratodus apicalis5 sites
- Cretomanta4 sites
- Dalpiazia stromeri4 sites
- Elasmosauridae4 sites
- Pachyvaranus crassispondylus4 sites
- Plicatoscyllium gharbii4 sites
- Rhinobatos4 sites
- Rhombodus meridionalis4 sites
- Serratolamna khderii4 sites
- Squalicorax bassanii4 sites
- Squalicorax microserratus4 sites
- Coupatezia elevata3 sites
- Dyrosauridae3 sites
- Enchodus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eremiasaurus heterodontus, 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- Marine vertebrate faunas from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Benguérir (Ganntour Basin, Morocco): Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology5
- A new mosasaurine from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) phosphates of Morocco and its implications for mosasaurine systematics2
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Eremiasaurus heterodontus 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 Eremiasaurus heterodontus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eremiasaurus heterodontus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEremiasaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. LeBlanc et al. 2012