Teleosaurus geoffroyi
No picture of Teleosaurus geoffroyi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Teleosaurus geoffroyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TeleosaurusPBDB
- 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.
2 occurrences of Teleosaurus geoffroyi 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
2 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
2 formations
- Pierre de Caen Formation · Calcaires de Caen Group1
- Taynton Limestone Formation · Great Oolite Group1
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The named rock units Teleosaurus geoffroyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Teleosaurus geoffroyi and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Teleosaurus geoffroyi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Amphilestes broderipii1 site
- Amphitherium prevostii1 site
- Amphitherium rixoni1 site
- Asteracanthus1 site
- Avetheropoda1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Crateropteryx colei1 site
- Deslongchampsina larteti1 site
- Gnathosaurus1 site
- Hybodus reticulatus1 site
- Leptacanthus semistriatus1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Megalosaurus bucklandii1 site
- Oolithes sphaericus1 site
- Phascolotherium bucklandi1 site
- Pristacanthus securis1 site
- Protochelys blakii1 site
- Psammodus rugosus1 site
- Pterosauria1 site
- Reptilia1 site
- Rhamphocephalus bucklandi1 site
- Seldsienean megistorhynchus1 site
- Stereognathus ooliticus1 site
- Teleosaurus cadomensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Teleosaurus geoffroyi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Teleosaurus geoffroyi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Teleosaurus geoffroyi, 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 itTeleosaurus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deslongchamps 1868