Thalattosuchia

Searched as Mesosauria. The Paleobiology Database treats Thalattosuchia as the accepted name.

Thalattosuchia

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Permian — about 62 of 526 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 526 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 526 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 526 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 71 of 526 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 141 of 526 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 209 of 526 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 42 of 526 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 526 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 526 occurrences295–287 Mya — about 30 occurrences287–279 Mya — about 32 occurrences279–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–194 Mya — about 5 occurrences194–186 Mya — about 3 occurrences186–178 Mya — about 53 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 15 occurrences170–163 Mya — about 118 occurrences163–155 Mya — about 52 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 134 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 52 occurrences139–131 Mya — about 15 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 7 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 7 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283.3 Mya83.6 Mya295 Mya62 Mya

526 occurrences of Thalattosuchia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

526 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

114 formations

Irati — 17.25°S, 52.72°WIrati — 17.48°S, 52.05°WIrati — 25.84°S, 50.42°WIrati — 30.34°S, 54.33°WIrati — 22.98°S, 47.86°WIrati — 23.35°S, 47.85°WIrati — 23.59°S, 48.05°WIrati — 7.67°S, 39.25°WIrati — 22.50°S, 47.58°WIrati — 22.73°S, 47.65°WIrati — 25.48°S, 50.65°WIrati — 25.62°S, 50.69°WIrati — 23.10°S, 47.72°WIrati — 25.10°S, 50.17°WIrati — 30.39°S, 54.59°WIrati — 21.47°S, 47.36°WOxford Clay — 52.60°N, 0.21°WOxford Clay — 51.83°N, 0.70°WOxford Clay — 51.75°N, 1.18°WOxford Clay — 51.37°N, 2.14°WOxford Clay — 50.61°N, 2.45°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.74°N, 1.31°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.75°N, 1.18°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.25°N, 2.16°WKimmeridge Clay — 52.40°N, 0.28°EKimmeridge Clay — 50.61°N, 2.13°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.61°N, 2.45°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.56°N, 1.78°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.35°N, 1.99°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.41°N, 2.00°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.76°N, 1.20°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.63°N, 2.34°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.36°N, 1.65°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.61°N, 2.16°WPosidonia Shale — 48.61°N, 9.48°EPosidonia Shale — 48.64°N, 9.62°EPosidonia Shale — 48.65°N, 9.63°EPosidonia Shale — 49.48°N, 11.78°EPosidonia Shale — 49.92°N, 11.47°EPosidonia Shale — 49.15°N, 12.00°EVaca 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 — 39.12°S, 69.42°WVaca Muerta — 35.90°S, 70.27°WVaca Muerta — 37.11°S, 69.48°WVaca Muerta — 34.97°S, 69.82°WEl Mers — 33.45°N, 4.42°WEl Mers — 33.43°N, 4.40°WEl Mers — 33.48°N, 4.33°WEl Mers — 33.47°N, 4.46°WEl Mers — 33.42°N, 4.45°WAlum Shale — 54.48°N, 0.60°WAlum Shale — 54.50°N, 0.67°WWhitehill — 31.40°S, 23.12°EWhitehill — 28.74°S, 24.77°EWhitehill — 29.38°S, 24.17°EWhitehill — 31.47°S, 19.77°EWhitehill — 31.38°S, 19.11°ELa Casita — 24.13°N, 100.18°WLa Casita — 24.75°N, 99.96°WLa Casita — 24.13°N, 100.78°WLa Casita — 25.02°N, 100.41°WLa Casita — 24.96°N, 100.97°WMörnsheim — 48.79°N, 10.90°EDouiret — 32.68°N, 10.17°EDouiret — 33.11°N, 10.33°EDouiret — 32.87°N, 10.38°ECotswold Slate — 51.02°N, 3.25°WCotswold Slate — 51.90°N, 1.83°WLa Caja — 25.04°N, 100.95°WLa Caja — 24.44°N, 99.18°WTorleite — 49.01°N, 11.83°ETorleite — 50.03°N, 11.12°EMarnes de Dives — 49.33°N, 0.00°EMarnes de Dives — 49.40°N, 0.20°WPierre de Caen — 49.15°N, 0.36°WPierre de Caen — 49.05°N, 0.32°WForest Marble — 50.71°N, 2.78°WForest Marble — 51.86°N, 1.30°WForest Marble — 51.85°N, 0.10°WJagua — 22.38°N, 83.50°WJagua — 22.62°N, 83.71°WKsar Metlili — 32.70°N, 3.22°WHuab — 21.20°S, 14.05°EChipping Norton Limestone — 51.95°N, 1.75°WChipping Norton Limestone — 51.98°N, 1.65°WChipping Norton Limestone — 51.99°N, 1.80°WReuchenette — 47.29°N, 7.38°EReuchenette — 47.33°N, 7.64°EReuchenette — 47.39°N, 7.03°EMelo — 31.93°S, 54.02°WAltmühltal — 48.93°N, 11.15°E

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The named rock units Thalattosuchia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 90 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 137 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thalattosuchia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

932 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 323 sites for Thalattosuchia, and this reads 240 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

201 references

Each of the 526 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. 189 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 Thalattosuchia

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thalattosuchia 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 itCrocodylomorpha through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Giebel 1847