Pliosaurus brachydeirus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PliosaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pliosauroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pliosauroidea

Time the record covers

At least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 15 of 15 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152.21 Mya145.06 Mya155.3 Mya142.6 Mya

15 occurrences of Pliosaurus brachydeirus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

15 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

Kimmeridge Clay — 52.40°N, 0.28°EKimmeridge Clay — 53.39°N, 0.34°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.75°N, 1.16°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.71°N, 1.29°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.72°N, 1.16°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.55°N, 1.79°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.61°N, 2.45°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.57°N, 2.45°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.41°N, 2.00°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.35°N, 1.99°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.61°N, 2.13°WPortland Oolite — 50.57°N, 2.45°W

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

Pliosaurus brachydeirus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pliosaurus brachydeirus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pliosaurus brachydeirus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

Each of the 15 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 content0

No picture of Pliosaurus brachydeirus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pliosaurus brachydeirus itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pliosaurus brachydeirus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPliosaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen 1841)