Dromotectum spinosum
No picture of Dromotectum spinosum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dromotectum spinosum 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 Dromotectum spinosum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DromotectumPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dromotectum spinosum 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Dromotectum spinosum 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.
Dromotectum spinosum and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Dromotectum spinosum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Benthosuchus3 sites
- Chasmatosuchus2 sites
- Chasmatosuchus rossicus2 sites
- Thoosuchus2 sites
- Amphibia1 site
- Benthosuchus sushkini1 site
- Crocopoda1 site
- Microcnemus efremovi1 site
- Procolophonoidea1 site
- Proterosuchia1 site
- Prothoosuchus blomi1 site
- Qantas samarensis1 site
- Rhynchocephalia1 site
- Syrtosuchus samarensis1 site
- Temnospondyli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dromotectum spinosum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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
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No picture of Dromotectum spinosum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dromotectum spinosum 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 Dromotectum spinosum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dromotectum spinosum 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 itDromotectum through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Novikov and Shishkin 2000