Geosaurus giganteus

No picture of Geosaurus giganteus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Geosaurus giganteus itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Geosaurus giganteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 6.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149.7 Mya142.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Geosaurus giganteus 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

3 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

Solnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EMörnsheim — 48.79°N, 10.90°E

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The named rock units Geosaurus giganteus 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.

Geosaurus giganteus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Geosaurus giganteus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Geosaurus giganteus, 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

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

Media content1

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Geosaurus gigantea · NHMUK:PAL:PV R 1230

No picture of Geosaurus giganteus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Geosaurus giganteus itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Geosaurus giganteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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What may have been alongside itGeosaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sömmerring 1816)