Pluridensini
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HalisaurinaePBDB
- 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 most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Pluridensini 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
- Couche III Formation2
- Mooreville Chalk Formation · Selma Group1
- Farin-Doutchi Formation1
- Nkporo Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Pluridensini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pluridensini and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pluridensini and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Thalassotitan atrox2 sites
- Abelisauridae1 site
- Acipenseridae1 site
- Ajnabia odysseus1 site
- Bananogmius1 site
- Carinodens acrodon1 site
- Chelosphargis advena1 site
- Cimolichthys nepaholica1 site
- Clidastes propython1 site
- Edaphodon1 site
- Enchodus petrosus1 site
- Enchodus saevus1 site
- Eremiasaurus heterodontus1 site
- Hainosaurus boubker1 site
- Ilatardia cetiotesta1 site
- Lambeosaurinae1 site
- Libycoceras crossense1 site
- Minqaria bata1 site
- Mosasaurus beaugei1 site
- Nostoceras1 site
- Pachyrhizodus caninus1 site
- Pluridens calabaria1 site
- Pluridens imelaki1 site
- Pluridens serpentis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pluridensini, 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
4 references- Pluridens serpentis, a new mosasaurid (Mosasauridae: Halisaurinae) from the Maastrichtian of Morocco and implications for mosasaur diversity2
- A Giant Halisaurine from the Late Maastrichtian of Morocco1
- A new species of Pluridens (Mosasauridae: Halisaurinae) from the upper Campanian of Southern Nigeria1
- A new mosasaur Pluridens walkeri from the Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian of the Iullemmeden Basin, southwest Niger1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pluridensini was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pluridensini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pluridensini 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 itHalisaurinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Longrich et al. 2021