Hyperodapedontinae

Hyperodapedontinae is a subfamily of rhynchosaurs within the family Rhynchosauridae. Fossils have been found in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, India, Madagascar, Scotland, Tanzania, the United States, and Zimbabwe.

Hyperodapedontinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhynchosauridaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rhynchosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 36 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 69 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 68 of 69 occurrencesLate Triassic242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 3 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 4 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 5 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 5 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 5 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 5 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 5 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 2 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 2 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 2 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 2 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 2 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 2 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 2 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 2 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences242.2 Mya205 Mya

69 occurrences of Hyperodapedontinae 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

69 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

13 formations

Santa Maria — 29.70°S, 53.79°WSanta Maria — 29.63°S, 54.13°WSanta Maria — 29.65°S, 53.29°WSanta Maria — 29.70°S, 52.86°WSanta Maria — 29.63°S, 53.45°WPebbly Arkose — 16.23°S, 30.33°EPebbly Arkose — 16.10°S, 30.05°EPebbly Arkose — 16.10°S, 30.47°EMaleri — 19.22°N, 79.58°EMaleri — 19.17°N, 79.67°EMaleri — 18.63°N, 79.93°ETiki — 23.92°N, 81.37°ETiki — 23.92°N, 81.35°ELossiemouth Sandstone — 57.72°N, 3.29°WCaturrita — 29.70°S, 53.77°WCaturrita — 29.67°S, 52.72°WIschigualasto — 30.14°S, 67.88°WIsalo II — 22.17°S, 45.00°EIsalo II — 22.00°S, 45.20°EIsalo II — 22.92°S, 44.55°EWolfville — 45.22°N, 64.00°WWolfville — 45.14°N, 64.32°WWolfville — 45.32°N, 63.79°WColorado City — 32.17°N, 101.25°WColorado City — 32.18°N, 101.25°WPopo Agie — 43.53°N, 106.80°WTecovas — 35.38°N, 102.16°WSanto Domingo — 28.50°S, 68.75°W

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The named rock units Hyperodapedontinae 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.

Hyperodapedontinae and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Hyperodapedontinae, 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

30 references

Each of the 69 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. 18 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 content1

Picture of Hyperodapedontinae

Credit
Petr Menshikov ( https://twitter.com/Petr75113553 ; https://vk.com/prehistoricproduction )
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hyperodapedontinae 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.

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 itRhynchosauridae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chatterjee 1969)