Plioplatecarpini

Plioplatecarpini

Nobu Tamura http://paleoexhibit.blogspot.com/ http://spinops.blogspot.com/ http://www.palaeocritti.com · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
PlioplatecarpinaePBDB
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 102 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 102 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 101 of 102 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 102 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 3 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 5 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 8 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 14 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 12 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 12 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 12 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 12 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 11 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 10 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya60 Mya

102 occurrences of Plioplatecarpini 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

102 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

33 formations

Niobrara — 38.95°N, 100.48°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 — 38.90°N, 100.10°WNiobrara — 39.15°N, 99.35°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°WFox 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°WDanish White Chalk — 55.30°N, 12.45°EMolecap Greensand — 31.35°S, 115.90°EMolecap Greensand — 30.68°S, 115.70°EDukamaje — 15.37°N, 5.83°ELópez de Bertodano — 64.28°S, 56.81°WDemopolis — 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°WEctor Chalk — 32.85°N, 96.79°WBrownstown — 33.92°N, 93.48°WMesaverde — 43.47°N, 109.22°WMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.68°ECraie de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.93°EBoquillas — 29.32°N, 103.62°WMuwaddar Chalk Marl — 31.56°N, 36.51°E

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The named rock units Plioplatecarpini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plioplatecarpini and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

660 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Plioplatecarpini, 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

64 references

Each of the 102 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. 52 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 Plioplatecarpini

Credit
Nobu Tamura http://paleoexhibit.blogspot.com/ http://spinops.blogspot.com/ http://www.palaeocritti.com
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Plioplatecarpini 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 itPlioplatecarpinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Russell 1967)