Macrospondylus bollensis

No picture of Macrospondylus bollensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Macrospondylus bollensis itself, so it was not used. 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 Macrospondylus bollensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 180.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 26 of 26 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 10 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 7 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 1 occurrence179–178 Mya — about 1 occurrence178–177 Mya — about 1 occurrence177–176 Mya — about 1 occurrence176–175 Mya — about 1 occurrence175–174 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences182.9 Mya – 180.4 Mya201.9 Mya174.2 Mya

26 occurrences of Macrospondylus bollensis on record, most of them in the Early 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

26 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

3 formations

Posidonia Shale — 48.64°N, 9.62°EPosidonia Shale — 48.65°N, 9.63°EPosidonia Shale — 48.65°N, 9.53°EPosidonia Shale — 49.48°N, 11.78°EPosidonia Shale — 49.92°N, 11.47°EAlum Shale — 54.48°N, 0.60°WJet Rock — 54.55°N, 0.77°W

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The named rock units Macrospondylus bollensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macrospondylus bollensis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Macrospondylus bollensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

38 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Macrospondylus bollensis, 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 26 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

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No picture of Macrospondylus bollensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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

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 Macrospondylus bollensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Macrospondylus bollensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

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What may have been alongside itMystriosaurus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cuvier 1824)