Plioplatecarpinae

Plioplatecarpinae is a subfamily of mosasaurs, a diverse group of Late Cretaceous marine squamates. Members of the subfamily are informally and collectively known as "plioplatecarpines" and have been recovered from all continents, though the occurrences in Australia remain questionable. The subfamily includes the genera Latoplatecarpus, Platecarpus, Plioplatecarpus and Plesioplatecarpus.

Plioplatecarpinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MosasauridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Mosasauridae
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Mosasauridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Mosasauridae
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 152 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 152 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 151 of 152 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 152 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 7 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 9 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 12 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 20 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 16 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 16 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 16 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 17 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 19 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 17 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya60 Mya

152 occurrences of Plioplatecarpinae 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

152 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

51 formations

Niobrara — 38.95°N, 100.48°WNiobrara — 38.82°N, 100.18°WNiobrara — 38.00°N, 100.25°WNiobrara — 38.77°N, 100.90°WNiobrara — 48.63°N, 98.04°WNiobrara — 38.83°N, 100.12°WNiobrara — 38.75°N, 100.21°WNiobrara — 39.12°N, 100.02°WNiobrara — 38.90°N, 100.10°WNiobrara — 39.15°N, 99.35°WNiobrara — 39.65°N, 99.22°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.76°WPierre Shale — 43.31°N, 104.22°WPierre Shale — 43.02°N, 98.62°WPierre Shale — 43.29°N, 104.11°WPierre Shale — 42.87°N, 97.38°WPierre Shale — 43.26°N, 104.34°WPierre Shale — 43.58°N, 103.20°WPierre Shale — 38.77°N, 101.41°WPierre Shale — 43.19°N, 103.78°WPierre Shale — 44.47°N, 100.41°WPierre Shale — 43.50°N, 103.96°WPierre Shale — 47.36°N, 97.99°WPierre Shale — 39.91°N, 101.94°WPierre Shale — 49.22°N, 98.20°WPierre Shale — 49.37°N, 98.27°WPierre Shale — 49.35°N, 98.34°WPierre Shale — 49.33°N, 98.23°WPierre Shale — 49.18°N, 98.10°WPierre Shale — 51.03°N, 100.20°WVilleta — 2.83°N, 75.47°WVilleta — 2.52°N, 75.78°WDukamaje — 15.37°N, 5.83°EFox Hills — 46.38°N, 100.85°WFox Hills — 46.10°N, 100.43°WFox Hills — 46.38°N, 99.59°WBearpaw Shale — 50.67°N, 107.43°WBearpaw Shale — 50.50°N, 107.83°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WMooreville Chalk — 32.85°N, 87.84°WMooreville Chalk — 33.03°N, 87.97°WItombe — 8.29°S, 13.35°EDanish White Chalk — 55.30°N, 12.45°EPhosphates — 32.88°N, 6.63°WMolecap Greensand — 31.35°S, 115.90°EMolecap Greensand — 30.68°S, 115.70°EPen — 29.36°N, 103.52°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.28°S, 56.81°WBottrop — 51.53°N, 6.90°EBottrop — 51.43°N, 6.76°EDemopolis — 34.59°N, 88.63°WBlufftown — 32.16°N, 85.03°WPoint Lookout — 35.20°N, 107.05°WTar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WEutaw — 33.48°N, 88.42°WPierre — 43.92°N, 102.58°WRima — 13.45°N, 5.68°E

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The named rock units Plioplatecarpinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plioplatecarpinae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

749 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 139 sites for Plioplatecarpinae, 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

89 references

Each of the 152 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. 77 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

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Picture of Plioplatecarpinae

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No 3D scan of Plioplatecarpinae 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

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