Gryposuchus croizati
No picture of Gryposuchus croizati 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 Gryposuchus croizati, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GryposuchusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Gryposuchus croizati on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Gryposuchus croizati has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gryposuchus croizati and its relatives
MioceneWhere Gryposuchus croizati and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Caimaninae2 sites
- Purussaurus2 sites
- Purussaurus mirandai2 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) inutilis1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) zorritoensis1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa1 site
- Anadara notabilis1 site
- Antillipecten antillarum1 site
- Antillophos1 site
- Arca chemnitzi1 site
- Arcinella cornuta1 site
- Argopecten1 site
- Argopecten irradians1 site
- Arius1 site
- Bagre marinus1 site
- Bairdemys sanchezi1 site
- Bairdemys venezuelensis1 site
- Boinae1 site
- Buchema1 site
- Caiman wannlangstoni1 site
- Cancellaria (Cancellaria)1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Cardiomya1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gryposuchus croizati, 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
3 references- The world's largest gharials Gryposuchus: description of G. croizati n. sp. (Crocodylia, Gavialidae) from the Upper Miocene Urumaco Formation, Venezuela4
- Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Gryposuchus croizati 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 Gryposuchus croizati, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gryposuchus croizati 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 itGryposuchus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riff and Aguilera 2008