Eosauropterygia

No picture of Eosauropterygia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Eosauropterygia 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 Eosauropterygia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SauropterygiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Sauropterygia

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 256 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 11 of 256 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 236 of 256 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 9 of 256 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 256 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 5 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 16 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 29 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 40 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 42 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 53 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 55 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 6 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247 Mya205.7 Mya253 Mya200 Mya

256 occurrences of Eosauropterygia 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

256 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

52 formations

Falang — 25.20°N, 105.01°EFalang — 25.08°N, 104.88°EFalang — 25.08°N, 104.67°EFalang — 25.67°N, 104.25°EFalang — 25.16°N, 104.82°EBesano — 45.91°N, 8.94°EGuanling — 25.70°N, 104.45°EGuanling — 25.47°N, 104.83°EGuanling — 24.78°N, 104.33°EGuanling — 24.88°N, 104.31°EGuanling — 24.52°N, 103.93°EGuanling — 24.90°N, 104.20°ECassina — 45.91°N, 8.95°EJena — 50.90°N, 11.30°EJena — 51.42°N, 11.68°EJena — 52.47°N, 13.78°EJena — 51.22°N, 11.77°EVossenveld — 51.97°N, 6.73°EVossenveld — 51.97°N, 6.78°EErfurt — 49.21°N, 9.68°EErfurt — 49.04°N, 9.77°EErfurt — 48.90°N, 9.20°EErfurt — 50.90°N, 10.95°EErfurt — 49.07°N, 9.90°EWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°EGogolin — 50.47°N, 17.97°EGogolin — 50.48°N, 18.08°EMuschelkalk — 41.27°N, 1.12°EMuschelkalk — 42.07°N, 0.23°EKarlstadt — 52.47°N, 13.78°EKarlstadt — 51.92°N, 11.29°ECrow Mountain — 42.73°N, 106.44°WCrow Mountain — 42.63°N, 106.29°WCrow Mountain — 42.68°N, 106.25°WTrochitenkalk — 49.31°N, 8.72°ETrochitenkalk — 51.09°N, 11.63°ERöt — 51.48°N, 11.90°ERöt — 48.45°N, 8.42°ERöt — 52.47°N, 13.78°ERöt — 50.93°N, 11.59°EPerledo-Varenna — 46.02°N, 9.30°EMeride — 45.88°N, 8.90°EJialingjiang — 28.68°N, 115.85°EJialingjiang — 31.05°N, 111.63°ECalcare di Recoaro — 45.75°N, 11.12°EMeride — 45.89°N, 8.94°EBesano — 45.89°N, 8.90°EJilh — 26.39°N, 44.24°EProsanto — 46.63°N, 9.75°EProsanto — 46.68°N, 9.82°EMuschelkalk — 31.22°N, 34.77°EMuschelkalk — 30.35°N, 34.79°EPerledo-Vaenna — 46.02°N, 9.30°EPerledo-Vaenna — 45.86°N, 9.40°E

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The named rock units Eosauropterygia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 76 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eosauropterygia and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

925 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 174 sites for Eosauropterygia, 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

109 references

Each of the 256 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. 97 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 content0

No picture of Eosauropterygia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Eosauropterygia 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 Eosauropterygia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eosauropterygia 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 itSauropterygia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rieppel 1994