Parasaniwa wyomingensis

Parasaniwa wyomingensis

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ParasaniwaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Parasaniwa
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Parasaniwa
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Parasaniwa

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 21 of 21 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

21 occurrences of Parasaniwa wyomingensis 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

21 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

8 formations

Hell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 45.64°N, 103.49°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.17°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WScollard — 52.33°N, 113.12°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WWahweap — 37.59°N, 112.88°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.54°N, 101.36°W

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

Parasaniwa wyomingensis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Parasaniwa wyomingensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

344 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Parasaniwa wyomingensis, 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

13 references

Each of the 21 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. 1 further reference is 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 Parasaniwa wyomingensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parasaniwa wyomingensis 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 itParasaniwa through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

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