Aetosaurinae

Aetosaurinae is one of the two main clades of aetosaurs, the other being Desmatosuchia. It is a stem-based taxon defined as all aetosaurs more closely related to Aetosaurus than Desmatosuchus. Aetosaurinae currently comprises Aetosaurus, similar forms such as Coahomasuchus and Stenomyti, and the widespread and successful aetosaur clade Typothoracinae.

Aetosaurinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StagonolepididaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Aetosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 105 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 159 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 158 of 159 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 159 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 159 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 159 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 159 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous239–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–231 Mya — about 3 occurrences231–227 Mya — about 4 occurrences227–223 Mya — about 27 occurrences223–219 Mya — about 27 occurrences219–215 Mya — about 27 occurrences215–211 Mya — about 29 occurrences211–207 Mya — about 27 occurrences207–203 Mya — about 12 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences227.3 Mya121.4 Mya239 Mya117 Mya

159 occurrences of Aetosaurinae on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

159 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

26 formations

Chinle — 36.32°N, 106.47°WChinle — 35.05°N, 109.83°WChinle — 35.09°N, 109.79°WChinle — 34.83°N, 109.82°WChinle — 36.26°N, 106.81°WChinle — 35.84°N, 111.25°WChinle — 36.09°N, 111.36°WChinle — 35.90°N, 111.29°WChinle — 35.65°N, 111.12°WChinle — 34.86°N, 109.78°WChinle — 36.40°N, 106.50°WChinle — 39.83°N, 106.33°WChinle — 34.94°N, 109.74°WChinle — 34.79°N, 109.88°WChinle — 34.73°N, 109.67°WChinle — 36.31°N, 106.45°WChinle — 36.10°N, 106.20°WChinle — 34.44°N, 109.46°WChinle — 34.53°N, 109.32°WChinle — 35.60°N, 106.86°WChinle — 39.83°N, 106.90°WChinle — 35.92°N, 111.45°WGarita Creek — 35.28°N, 104.40°WGarita Creek — 35.35°N, 104.52°WGarita Creek — 35.33°N, 104.33°WGarita Creek — 35.48°N, 105.88°WGarita Creek — 35.28°N, 104.55°WCooper Canyon — 33.52°N, 101.32°WCooper Canyon — 33.04°N, 101.38°WCooper Canyon — 33.45°N, 101.44°WCooper Canyon — 33.18°N, 101.35°WCooper Canyon — 33.11°N, 101.45°WLöwenstein — 49.06°N, 8.98°ELöwenstein — 48.74°N, 9.13°ELöwenstein — 49.05°N, 9.00°ELöwenstein — 48.76°N, 9.14°ELöwenstein — 48.76°N, 9.21°ELöwenstein — 49.10°N, 9.38°ELöwenstein — 48.73°N, 9.00°EBull Canyon — 35.37°N, 103.38°WBull Canyon — 35.10°N, 103.40°WRedonda — 34.94°N, 103.43°WRedonda — 34.97°N, 103.46°WRedonda — 34.98°N, 103.33°WRedonda — 35.07°N, 103.63°WRedonda — 35.00°N, 103.67°WTrujillo — 35.15°N, 103.48°WTrujillo — 35.35°N, 104.52°WTrujillo — 35.00°N, 103.38°WTecovas — 33.59°N, 101.11°WTecovas — 35.37°N, 102.17°WTecovas — 33.50°N, 101.07°WSanta Rosa — 35.17°N, 105.75°WSanta Rosa — 35.53°N, 105.75°WPetrified Forest — 36.21°N, 106.62°WPetrified Forest — 35.32°N, 106.31°WIschigualasto — 30.12°S, 67.88°WØrsted Dal — 71.83°N, 23.51°WBluewater Creek — 35.44°N, 108.50°WColorado City — 32.13°N, 101.26°WColorado City — 32.17°N, 101.25°WKlettgau — 47.50°N, 8.02°ESanta Maria — 29.70°S, 53.79°WSloan Canyon — 36.95°N, 102.26°WZorzino Limestone — 45.78°N, 9.82°ETimezgadiouine — 31.03°N, 9.01°WLower Zarzaïtine — 27.77°N, 9.69°EMaleri — 19.22°N, 79.58°EPekin — 35.64°N, 79.00°WDockum — 32.17°N, 101.25°WLissauer Breccia — 50.78°N, 18.42°E

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The named rock units Aetosaurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Aetosaurinae and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Aetosaurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

389 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 136 sites for Aetosaurinae, 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

58 references

Each of the 159 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. 46 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 Aetosaurinae

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aetosaurinae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Baur 1887)