Dinocephalosaurus orientalis

Dinocephalosaurus orientalis

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 2.5 · 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
DinocephalosaurusPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Dinocephalosaurus
Life habit
aquaticPBDB, for Dinocephalosaurus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Dinocephalosaurus

Time the record covers

At most 970 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 244.4 Mya and 243.43 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Triassic244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244.9 Mya242.93 Mya

2 occurrences of Dinocephalosaurus orientalis 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

2 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

1 formation

Guanling — 25.70°N, 104.47°E

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The named rock units Dinocephalosaurus orientalis 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.

Dinocephalosaurus orientalis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Dinocephalosaurus orientalis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, 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

Each of the 2 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 Dinocephalosaurus orientalis

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Li 2003