Eunotosaurus

A picture published with the record for Eunotosaurus. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
MillerettidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At most 4.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPermian264–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264.8 Mya259.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Eunotosaurus 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

7 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

Abrahamskraal — 31.14°S, 22.38°EAbrahamskraal — 32.92°S, 21.74°EAbrahamskraal — 32.89°S, 21.87°EAbrahamskraal — 32.50°S, 22.30°EAbrahamskraal — 32.47°S, 21.77°E

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The named rock units Eunotosaurus 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.

Eunotosaurus and its relatives

Permian

Where Eunotosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eunotosaurus, 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 7 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

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Picture of Eunotosaurus

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Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
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Commercial use
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CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Eunotosaurus africanus · bp:1:7852

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. Seeley 1892