Mosasaurus dekayi

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MosasaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Mosasauridae
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Mosasauridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Mosasauridae
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 8 of 8 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

8 occurrences of Mosasaurus dekayi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

8 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

5 formations

Navesink — 40.40°N, 74.03°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WNew Egypt — 39.73°N, 75.16°WHornerstown — 40.12°N, 74.55°WFox Hills — 46.28°N, 100.54°W

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The named rock units Mosasaurus dekayi 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.

Mosasaurus dekayi and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mosasaurus dekayi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

71 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Mosasaurus dekayi, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 content0

No picture of Mosasaurus dekayi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Mosasaurus dekayi 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 Mosasaurus dekayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mosasaurus dekayi 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 itMosasaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1838