Odaxosaurus

A picture published with the record for Odaxosaurus. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
AnguidaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Anguidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 37 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 45 of 65 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 14 of 65 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 65 occurrencesEocene95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89.8 Mya45.9 Mya95 Mya36 Mya

65 occurrences of Odaxosaurus 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

65 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

25 formations

Fort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 46.05°N, 104.48°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WOldman — 50.70°N, 111.50°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.24°N, 104.29°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WKaiparowits — 37.80°N, 111.50°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.77°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WFerris — 41.95°N, 106.87°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WDenver — 39.70°N, 104.70°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WLaramie — 40.39°N, 104.49°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.21°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WWahweap — 37.59°N, 112.90°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WDinosaur Park — 49.96°N, 110.27°WSantiago — 33.40°N, 117.51°WStraight Cliffs — 37.60°N, 111.97°WKirtland — 36.17°N, 107.92°W

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The named rock units Odaxosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed.

Odaxosaurus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Odaxosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

860 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Odaxosaurus, 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

32 references

Each of the 65 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. 20 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 Odaxosaurus

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gilmore 1928