Thecachampsa sericodon

Thecachampsa sericodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecachampsaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 210 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 14 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiocene — about 15 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 18 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence56 Mya210 ka60 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Thecachampsa sericodon on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

18 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

7 formations

Calvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WPeace River — 27.83°N, 81.97°WPeace River — 29.65°N, 82.35°WPeace River — 29.68°N, 82.37°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WKirkwood — 39.30°N, 75.20°WAquia — 38.42°N, 77.26°WCurré — 8.86°N, 83.08°WStatenville — 30.40°N, 83.00°W

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The named rock units Thecachampsa sericodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thecachampsa sericodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Thecachampsa sericodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

440 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Thecachampsa sericodon, 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

15 references

Each of the 18 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Thecachampsa sericodon

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thecachampsa sericodon 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 itThecachampsa through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1867)