Gregicaulis dubius

No picture of Gregicaulis dubius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gregicaulis dubius firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Time the record covers

At most 7.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 248.6 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 4 of 19 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 15 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Triassic249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249.1 Mya241 Mya

19 occurrences of Gregicaulis dubius 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

19 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

Burgersdorp — 30.73°S, 26.78°EBurgersdorp — 30.75°S, 26.72°EBurgersdorp — 30.68°S, 26.72°EBurgersdorp — 30.72°S, 26.65°EBurgersdorp — 31.00°S, 27.00°EBurgersdorp — 31.67°S, 27.33°E

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

Gregicaulis dubius and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Gregicaulis dubius and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Gregicaulis dubius, 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 reference

Each of the 19 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Gregicaulis dubius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gregicaulis dubius firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

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.