Erpetosuchidae

Erpetosuchidae is an extinct family of pseudosuchian archosaurs. Erpetosuchidae was named by D. M. S. Watson in 1917 to include Erpetosuchus. It includes the type species Erpetosuchus granti from the Late Triassic of Scotland, Erpetosuchus sp. from the Late Triassic of eastern United States and Parringtonia gracilis from the middle Middle Triassic of Tanzania; the group might also include Dyoplax arenaceus from the Late Triassic of Germany, Archeopelta arborensis and Pagosvenator candelariensis from Brazil and Tarjadia ruthae from Argentina.

Erpetosuchidae

Zissoudisctrucker · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
PseudosuchiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 3 of 5 occurrencesLate Triassic248–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241.464 Mya227.3 Mya247.8 Mya204.9 Mya

5 occurrences of Erpetosuchidae on record, most of them in the Late 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

5 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

5 formations

Lossiemouth Sandstone — 57.72°N, 3.29°WNew Haven — 41.56°N, 72.91°WManda Beds — 10.28°S, 35.23°ESanta Maria — 29.76°S, 52.77°WChañares — 29.87°S, 67.72°W

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

Erpetosuchidae and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Erpetosuchidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Erpetosuchidae, 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

5 references

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 Erpetosuchidae

Credit
Zissoudisctrucker
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Erpetosuchidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPseudosuchia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Watson 1917