Temnodontosaurus

Temnodontosaurus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeoichthyosauriaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ichthyopterygia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Length
9 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 180.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 16 of 16 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 16 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence200–199 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 1 occurrence183–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence182–182 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199.5 Mya180.4 Mya201.9 Mya174.2 Mya

16 occurrences of Temnodontosaurus on record, most of them in the Early 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

16 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

5 formations

Alum Shale — 54.48°N, 0.60°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.90°WLuxembourg Sandstone — 49.74°N, 6.05°EPosidonia Shale — 48.23°N, 8.79°EWhitby Mudstone Formtation — 54.53°N, 0.72°W

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The named rock units Temnodontosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Temnodontosaurus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Temnodontosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Temnodontosaurus, 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

12 references

Each of the 16 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 content3

Picture of Temnodontosaurus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Temnodontosaurus platyodon · oumnh:pal:J.010307

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNeoichthyosauria through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lydekker 1889