Osteolaemus tetraspes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OsteolaemusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia
Time the record covers
At most 8.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Osteolaemus tetraspes on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
- Nkondo Formation · Albertine Group1
- Kakara Formation · Albertine Group1
- Nkondo/Warwire Formation · Albertine Group1
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The named rock units Osteolaemus tetraspes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Osteolaemus tetraspes and its relatives
MioceneWhere Osteolaemus tetraspes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Aepyceros1 site
- Anancus kenyensis1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Chrysichthys1 site
- Diceros bicornis1 site
- Lanistes1 site
- Mecistops nkondoensis1 site
- Nyanzachoerus jaegeri1 site
- Stegodon kaisensis1 site
- Stegotetrabelodon1 site
- Suidae1 site
- Sus waylandi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Osteolaemus tetraspes, 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
2 references- Late Cenozoic crocodiles (Reptilia: Crocodylidae) from the Western Rift, Uganda2
- Fish remains from Late Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological sites near Khashm el Girba,Sudan1
Each of the 3 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Holliday Lab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Osteolaemus tetraspes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Osteolaemus tetraspes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOsteolaemus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1861