Ctenosauriscidae

Ctenosauriscidae

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
PoposauroideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 9.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 13 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–244 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251.3 Mya241 Mya

15 occurrences of Ctenosauriscidae 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

15 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

7 formations

Moenkopi — 34.92°N, 110.26°WMoenkopi — 35.00°N, 110.50°WMoenkopi — 35.87°N, 111.40°WMoenkopi — 35.08°N, 110.84°WMoenkopi — 35.20°N, 105.08°WBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.29°N, 1.58°WBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.33°N, 2.08°WManda Beds — 10.34°S, 35.22°EHeshanggou — 39.43°N, 110.85°ESolling — 51.47°N, 10.01°ERöt — 47.68°N, 8.16°ELipovskaya — 49.26°N, 43.67°E

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The named rock units Ctenosauriscidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ctenosauriscidae and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Ctenosauriscidae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Ctenosauriscidae, 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

14 references

Each of the 15 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. 2 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 Ctenosauriscidae

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 Ctenosauriscidae 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 itPoposauroidea through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kuhn 1964)