Notosuchus terrestris

Notosuchus is an extinct genus of South American notosuchian crocodyliforms. It was terrestrial, living approximately 85 million years ago in the Santonian stage of the Late Cretaceous.

Notosuchus terrestris

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ), head modified by User:FunkMonk · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikipedia/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
NotosuchusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At most 2.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous86–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86.2 Mya83.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Notosuchus terrestris 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

5 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

Bajo de la Carpa — 38.95°S, 68.23°WBajo de la Carpa — 38.94°S, 68.06°WBajo de la Carpa — 39.05°S, 67.58°WBajo de la Carpa — 39.00°S, 68.00°W

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The named rock units Notosuchus terrestris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Notosuchus terrestris and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Notosuchus terrestris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Notosuchus terrestris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Notosuchus terrestris

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ), head modified by User:FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Notosuchus terrestris 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNotosuchus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1896