Geosaurini

Geosaurini

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GeosaurinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Thalattosuchia

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 4 of 66 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 49 of 66 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 66 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence161–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–154 Mya — about 3 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 6 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 11 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 9 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 7 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 6 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 4 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 2 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161.5 Mya119.57 Mya166 Mya112 Mya

66 occurrences of Geosaurini 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

66 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

23 formations

Kimmeridge Clay — 51.74°N, 1.31°WKimmeridge Clay — 52.40°N, 0.28°EKimmeridge Clay — 50.61°N, 2.13°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.59°N, 2.47°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.63°N, 2.34°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.56°N, 1.78°WVaca Muerta — 36.30°S, 69.50°WVaca Muerta — 37.30°S, 69.80°WVaca Muerta — 39.19°S, 69.67°WVaca Muerta — 38.83°S, 70.20°WVaca Muerta — 35.90°S, 70.27°WVaca Muerta — 37.11°S, 69.48°WOxford Clay — 51.75°N, 1.18°WOxford Clay — 52.57°N, 0.23°WOxford Clay — 51.37°N, 2.14°WMergelstetten — 48.70°N, 10.17°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EMörnsheim — 48.79°N, 10.90°ETorleite — 49.01°N, 11.83°ETorleite — 50.03°N, 11.12°ELa Casita — 24.13°N, 100.18°WLa Casita — 25.02°N, 100.41°WJagua — 22.38°N, 83.50°WFaringdon Sand — 51.65°N, 1.58°WNusplingen Limestone — 48.13°N, 8.88°EArgiles de Châtillon — 50.72°N, 1.62°EReuchenette — 47.33°N, 7.64°EMarnes de Dives — 49.33°N, 0.00°EPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°ETereñes — 43.49°N, 5.28°WWoburn Sand — 52.12°N, 0.20°EHybla — 38.05°N, 13.45°EKoprivnice — 49.58°N, 18.12°EAltmühltal — 48.93°N, 11.15°EWohlgeschichtete Kalke — 48.86°N, 10.13°EFeuerstein — 49.81°N, 11.13°E

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The named rock units Geosaurini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Geosaurini and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Geosaurini and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

293 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Geosaurini, 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

34 references

Each of the 66 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. 22 further references are not listed. 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

Picture of Geosaurini

Credit
Mark T. Young, Stephen L. Brusatte, Marco Brandalise de Andrade, Julia B. Desojo, Brian L. Beatty, Lorna Steel, Marta…
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Geosaurini 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 itGeosaurinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cau and Fanti 2011