Saurillodon

Saurillodon is a genus of prehistoric lizard of the Late Jurassic of Portugal, UK and Morrison Formation of Western North America.

No picture of Saurillodon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Saurillodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParamacellodidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 7 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–167 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–145 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya125.77 Mya169 Mya112 Mya

7 occurrences of Saurillodon 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

7 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

4 formations

Morrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WForest Marble — 51.87°N, 1.27°WAlcobaça — 39.70°N, 8.80°WIlek — 56.53°N, 91.81°E

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

Saurillodon and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Saurillodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Saurillodon, 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

7 references

Each of the 7 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 Saurillodon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Saurillodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Saurillodon 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Estes 1983