Tylosaurus laticaudus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TylosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Mosasauridae
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Tylosaurus laticaudus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
- Hornerstown Formation · Rancocas Group1
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The named rock units Tylosaurus laticaudus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tylosaurus laticaudus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tylosaurus laticaudus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Adocus1 site
- Adocus beatus1 site
- Dyrosauridae1 site
- Edaphodon miersii1 site
- Elasmosauridae1 site
- Euclastes wielandi1 site
- Graculavus velox1 site
- Hoplopteryx insculptus1 site
- Lytoloma jeanesii1 site
- Mosasaurus dekayi1 site
- Mosasaurus hoffmannii1 site
- Palaeotringa vagans1 site
- Taphrosphys nodosus1 site
- Taphrosphys sulcatus1 site
- Telmatornis priscus1 site
- Thoracosaurus1 site
- Thoracosaurus neocesariensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tylosaurus laticaudus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Tylosaurus laticaudus 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 Tylosaurus laticaudus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tylosaurus laticaudus 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 itTylosaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1870)