Lemmysuchus obtusidens

Lemmysuchus obtusidens

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161.5 Mya143.1 Mya166.1 Mya125 Mya

4 occurrences of Lemmysuchus obtusidens on record. 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

4 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

1 formation

Oxford Clay — 52.57°N, 0.23°WOxford Clay — 50.61°N, 2.45°W

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The named rock units Lemmysuchus obtusidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lemmysuchus obtusidens, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 content2

Picture of Lemmysuchus obtusidens

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Lemmysuchus obtusidens · NHMUK:PAL:PV R 3168 a

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLemmysuchus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Andrews 1909)