Paralligatoridae

Paralligatoridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EusuchiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 24 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–110 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences149.2 Mya72.2 Mya163 Mya64 Mya

24 occurrences of Paralligatoridae 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

24 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

15 formations

Baynshire — 43.94°N, 101.33°EBaynshire — 44.20°N, 102.80°EBaynshire — 43.14°N, 107.52°ETwin Mountains — 31.97°N, 98.48°WNenjiang — 44.40°N, 124.62°ENenjiang — 44.54°N, 125.71°EDjadokhta — 43.66°N, 100.90°EDjadokhta — 44.00°N, 104.00°ENemegt — 43.49°N, 101.28°ENemegt — 46.82°N, 94.15°EAntlers — 33.50°N, 97.58°WUdurchukan — 49.08°N, 130.86°EBostobe — 45.95°N, 64.65°EIren Dabasu — 43.72°N, 112.03°EYalovach — 40.49°N, 69.70°EBeds of Nogon Tsav — 43.00°N, 99.00°EPastos Bons — 6.66°S, 43.95°WKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°ELewisville — 32.81°N, 97.08°WLongjing — 42.87°N, 129.49°E

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The named rock units Paralligatoridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paralligatoridae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

216 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Paralligatoridae, 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

17 references

Each of the 24 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. 5 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 Paralligatoridae

Credit
Smokeybjb
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paralligatoridae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Konjukova 1954