Chirotherium rex
No picture of Chirotherium rex was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chirotherium rex itself, so it was not used. 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 Chirotherium rex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChirotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 247 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 237 Mya.
7 occurrences of Chirotherium rex on record, most of them in the Middle 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Moenkopi Formation5
- Cerro de Las Cabras Formation · Uspallata Group1
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The named rock units Chirotherium rex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chirotherium rex and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Chirotherium rex and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Chirotherium barthii3 sites
- Anomopteris mougeotii1 site
- Bjuvia1 site
- Brachychirotherium parvum1 site
- cf. Dendroichnites sp.1 site
- Chirotheriidae1 site
- Chirotherium sickleri1 site
- Cladophlebis leuthardtii1 site
- Dicynodontipus1 site
- Dioonitocarpidium1 site
- Equisetites1 site
- Gordonopteris lorigae1 site
- Helminthoidichnites tenuis1 site
- Helminthopsis1 site
- Isochirotherium coltoni1 site
- Isochirotherium coureli1 site
- Isochirotherium delicatum1 site
- Neuropteridium1 site
- Palaeophycus1 site
- Peltaspermum bornemannii1 site
- Pentasauropus argentinae1 site
- Procolophonichnium1 site
- Rhynchosauroides1 site
- Rhynchosauroides tirolicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Chirotherium rex, 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
5 references- Reptile and amphibian trackways from the Lower Triassic Moenkopi formation of Arizona and Utah3
- Middle Triassic Pentasauropus-dominated ichnofauna from western T Gondwana: Ichnotaxonomy, palaeoenvironment, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography1
- Sphingopus ladinicus isp. nov. from the Anisian of the Braies Dolomites (Southern Alps, Italy)1
- Review of the tetrapod ichnofauna of the Moenkopi Formation/Group (Early-Middle Triassic) of the American Southwest1
- A Middle Triassic ichnofauna: a preliminary report1
Each of the 7 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. 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 content0
No picture of Chirotherium rex was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chirotherium rex itself, so it was not used.
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 Chirotherium rex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chirotherium rex 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChirotherium through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peabody 1948