Dimetropus leisnerianus
Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas, Jerry Paul MacDonald · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- DimetropusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
5 occurrences of Dimetropus leisnerianus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
5 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Tambach Formation · Rotliegend Group4
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The named rock units Dimetropus leisnerianus 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.
Dimetropus leisnerianus and its relatives
PermianWhere Dimetropus leisnerianus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Amphisauropus kablikae1 site
- Dromopus lacertoides1 site
- Ichniotherium cottae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dimetropus leisnerianus, 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
2 references- Die Tierfährten in dem Rotliegenden “Deutschlands” [The animal tracks in the “German” Rotliegenden]4
- A supposed eupelycosaur body impression from the Early Permian of the Intra-Sudetic Basin, Poland1
Each of the 5 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 content1
Picture of Dimetropus leisnerianus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas, Jerry Paul MacDonald
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dimetropus leisnerianus 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 itDimetropus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geintiz 1863)