Peipehsuchus

Peipehsuchus is an extinct genus of metriorhynchoid crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian). The type species, P. teleorhinus, is known from China and fragmentary remains were found in the Callovian of Kyrgyzstan. The type specimen is known only by a fragmentary rostrum and teeth, and was originally believed to be a teleosaurid. A complete teleosaurid skull was referred to Peipehsuchus, however, the type specimen of Peipehsuchus has since been determined to be a metriorhynchoid and so the skull cannot belong to it.

Peipehsuchus

Drawing by Michael Long, published by Christine M. Janis, Borja Figueirido, Larisa DeSantis, Stephan Lautenschlager · CC BY 4.0 · 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
ThalattosuchiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Thalattosuchia

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161.5 Mya143.1 Mya167 Mya99 Mya

3 occurrences of Peipehsuchus on record. 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 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

2 formations

Balabansai — 41.33°N, 72.25°ETzeliuching — 29.74°N, 106.55°E

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

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Peipehsuchus, 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

2 references

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. 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 Peipehsuchus

Credit
Drawing by Michael Long, published by Christine M. Janis, Borja Figueirido, Larisa DeSantis, Stephan Lautenschlager
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peipehsuchus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1948