Chasmatosuchus rossicus

Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- ChasmatosuchusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Chasmatosuchus rossicus 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
3 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Chasmatosuchus rossicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chasmatosuchus rossicus and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Chasmatosuchus rossicus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Dromotectum spinosum2 sites
- Microcnemus efremovi2 sites
- Benthosuchus1 site
- Benthosuchus sushkini1 site
- Crocopoda1 site
- Procolophonoidea1 site
- Thoosuchus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chasmatosuchus rossicus, 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
3 references- Podklass Archosauromorpha1
- New data on the rauisuchids of Eastern Europe1
- Eine Reptilfauna aus der ältesten Trias Nordrußlands [A reptilian fauna from the earliest Triassic of northern Russia]1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Chasmatosuchus rossicus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dmitry Bogdanov
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chasmatosuchus rossicus 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 itChasmatosuchus through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huene 1940