Seldsienean megistorhynchus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SeldsieneanPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Thalattosuchia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Thalattosuchia
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Seldsienean megistorhynchus on record, most of them in the Middle 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
6 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
3 formations
- Pierre de Caen Formation · Calcaires de Caen Group2
- Great Oolite Formation1
- Forest Marble Formation · Great Oolite Group1
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The named rock units Seldsienean megistorhynchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Seldsienean megistorhynchus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Seldsienean megistorhynchus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Deslongchampsina larteti1 site
- Ischyodus emarginatus1 site
- Mesodon rugulosus1 site
- Ophthalmosauridae1 site
- Pholidophorus1 site
- Pholidophorus germanicus1 site
- Pristacanthus securis1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
- Steneosaurus heberti1 site
- Teleidosaurus joberti1 site
- Teleosaurus cadomensis1 site
- Teleosaurus geoffroyi1 site
- Thalattosuchia1 site
- Thaumatosaurus oolithicus1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Tracheophyta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Seldsienean megistorhynchus, 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
2 references- Note sur le Squelette et la Restauration du Teleosaurus cadomensis [Note on the skeleton and restoration of Teleosaurus cadomensis]4
- A revision of the Teleosauridae in the Oxford University Museum and the British Museum2
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Seldsienean megistorhynchus 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 Seldsienean megistorhynchus 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 Seldsienean megistorhynchus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Seldsienean megistorhynchus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itSeldsienean through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Saint-Hilaire 1866)