Capitosauria

Capitosauria

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
SuperstesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 337 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 172 of 337 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 123 of 337 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 39 of 337 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 337 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 337 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 337 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 337 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 337 occurrences268–262 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences262–256 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences256–250 Mya — about 69 occurrences250–244 Mya — about 166 occurrences244–238 Mya — about 56 occurrences238–231 Mya — about 12 occurrences231–225 Mya — about 7 occurrences225–219 Mya — about 5 occurrences219–213 Mya — about 5 occurrences213–207 Mya — about 6 occurrences207–201 Mya — about 9 occurrences201–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences259.857 Mya93.9 Mya268 Mya86 Mya

337 occurrences of Capitosauria on record, most of them in the Early 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

337 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

97 formations

Staritskaya — 51.56°N, 56.05°EStaritskaya — 51.63°N, 56.03°EStaritskaya — 51.80°N, 55.68°EStaritskaya — 51.32°N, 54.82°EStaritskaya — 51.61°N, 53.90°EStaritskaya — 51.87°N, 53.98°EStaritskaya — 52.21°N, 53.30°EStaritskaya — 52.21°N, 53.08°EStaritskaya — 52.30°N, 53.08°EStaritskaya — 52.32°N, 52.96°EStaritskaya — 52.39°N, 52.95°EStaritskaya — 52.37°N, 52.69°EStaritskaya — 52.40°N, 52.46°EStaritskaya — 52.38°N, 52.43°EStaritskaya — 52.23°N, 52.02°EStaritskaya — 52.35°N, 52.12°EStaritskaya — 52.49°N, 52.22°EStaritskaya — 52.72°N, 52.06°EStaritskaya — 52.81°N, 52.18°EStaritskaya — 52.86°N, 51.73°EStaritskaya — 52.81°N, 51.76°EStaritskaya — 52.81°N, 51.73°EStaritskaya — 52.50°N, 51.07°EStaritskaya — 52.51°N, 50.87°EKzylsaiskaya — 52.35°N, 52.66°EKzylsaiskaya — 52.31°N, 53.11°EKzylsaiskaya — 52.71°N, 51.34°EKzylsaiskaya — 52.43°N, 55.76°EKzylsaiskaya — 51.63°N, 56.03°EKzylsaiskaya — 51.28°N, 55.89°EKzylsaiskaya — 51.26°N, 54.43°EKzylsaiskaya — 51.59°N, 53.86°EKzylsaiskaya — 51.61°N, 53.80°EKzylsaiskaya — 52.22°N, 53.33°EKzylsaiskaya — 52.20°N, 53.23°EKzylsaiskaya — 52.08°N, 53.00°EKzylsaiskaya — 52.36°N, 52.71°EKzylsaiskaya — 52.35°N, 52.33°EKzylsaiskaya — 52.76°N, 51.64°EMoenkopi — 34.92°N, 110.26°WMoenkopi — 34.95°N, 110.77°WMoenkopi — 34.60°N, 109.63°WMoenkopi — 35.87°N, 111.40°WMoenkopi — 34.90°N, 110.15°WMoenkopi — 35.04°N, 111.03°WMoenkopi — 35.07°N, 110.87°WMoenkopi — 35.08°N, 110.84°WMoenkopi — 37.88°N, 110.37°WMoenkopi — 35.15°N, 105.23°WErfurt — 49.08°N, 9.89°EErfurt — 49.07°N, 9.76°EErfurt — 49.21°N, 9.68°EErfurt — 49.00°N, 9.77°EErfurt — 48.92°N, 9.08°EErfurt — 48.90°N, 9.20°EErfurt — 48.92°N, 8.95°EErfurt — 49.18°N, 9.87°EErfurt — 50.90°N, 10.95°EErfurt — 50.38°N, 10.65°EPetropavlovskaya — 52.43°N, 55.76°EPetropavlovskaya — 52.42°N, 55.72°EPetropavlovskaya — 52.40°N, 55.53°EPetropavlovskaya — 52.15°N, 55.89°EPetropavlovskaya — 52.15°N, 55.84°EPetropavlovskaya — 52.03°N, 55.72°EPetropavlovskaya — 52.03°N, 55.65°EPetropavlovskaya — 51.28°N, 55.89°EPetropavlovskaya — 51.90°N, 53.63°EPetropavlovskaya — 52.31°N, 53.12°EPetropavlovskaya — 52.34°N, 51.61°EBurgersdorp — 31.60°S, 26.37°EBurgersdorp — 30.88°S, 26.22°EBurgersdorp — 31.00°S, 26.33°EBurgersdorp — 28.33°S, 27.63°EBurgersdorp — 28.18°S, 27.96°EBurgersdorp — 30.91°S, 26.11°EBurgersdorp — 30.68°S, 26.70°EBurgersdorp — 30.42°S, 26.84°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.31°EDonguz — 51.55°N, 55.36°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.49°EDonguz — 52.41°N, 55.65°EDonguz — 52.53°N, 53.50°EDonguz — 52.00°N, 55.67°EDonguz — 51.46°N, 55.18°EPetropavlovka — 52.03°N, 55.64°EPetropavlovka — 50.81°N, 55.24°EPetropavlovka — 51.39°N, 55.28°EPetropavlovka — 51.75°N, 55.08°EPetropavlovka — 51.45°N, 55.20°EKopanskaya — 51.40°N, 54.66°EKopanskaya — 52.39°N, 52.95°EKopanskaya — 52.37°N, 52.69°EKopanskaya — 52.44°N, 52.46°EKopanskaya — 52.63°N, 52.01°EKopanskaya — 52.86°N, 52.10°EBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.29°N, 1.58°WBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.30°N, 1.52°WBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.33°N, 2.08°WOtter Sandstone — 50.67°N, 3.27°WErmaying — 36.97°N, 112.85°EErmaying — 36.92°N, 112.90°EErmaying — 36.98°N, 112.88°EErmaying — 37.07°N, 112.97°EKamennyi Yar — 52.82°N, 55.72°EKamennyi Yar — 52.81°N, 51.70°ECharkabozh — 65.45°N, 52.11°ECharkabozh — 69.28°N, 49.93°EBukobay — 52.41°N, 55.65°EBukobay — 51.45°N, 55.49°EBukobay — 51.44°N, 55.52°EBukobay — 51.62°N, 55.97°EStuttgart — 48.80°N, 9.17°EStuttgart — 48.52°N, 8.94°EStuttgart — 49.42°N, 10.48°EStuttgart — 52.02°N, 8.53°EKongressfjellet — 78.28°N, 17.63°EKongressfjellet — 78.58°N, 15.38°EKongressfjellet — 78.57°N, 15.32°EKongressfjellet — 78.25°N, 17.84°EUpper Buntsandstein — 47.67°N, 8.32°EUpper Buntsandstein — 50.00°N, 9.75°EUpper Buntsandstein — 48.72°N, 8.73°EUpper Buntsandstein — 48.07°N, 8.46°ERöt — 47.68°N, 8.16°ERöt — 48.61°N, 8.70°ERöt — 48.45°N, 8.42°EHardegsen — 48.45°N, 8.42°EHardegsen — 48.72°N, 8.73°EHardegsen — 49.47°N, 9.03°EHardegsen — 48.48°N, 8.50°ERybinsk — 58.02°N, 39.04°ERybinsk — 58.70°N, 44.57°EMiddle Sakamena — 13.42°S, 48.92°EMiddle Sakamena — 13.50°S, 48.85°EGostevskaya — 52.38°N, 52.30°EGostevskaya — 52.80°N, 51.78°EGostevskaya — 52.76°N, 51.65°EGostevskaya — 52.42°N, 51.17°EVetlugian Series — 57.43°N, 41.55°EVetlugian Series — 52.48°N, 52.24°E

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The named rock units Capitosauria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 73 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Capitosauria and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Capitosauria and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

700 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 275 sites for Capitosauria, and this reads 240 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

122 references

Each of the 337 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. 110 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 Capitosauria

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

No 3D scan of Capitosauria 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yates and Warren 2000