Metoposaurus krasiejowensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetoposaurusPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Metoposaurus
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Metoposaurus krasiejowensis 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
4 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
4 formations
- Grabowa Formation1
- Drawno Beds Formation1
- Weser Formation · Keuper Group1
- Löwenstein Formation · Keuper Group1
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The named rock units Metoposaurus krasiejowensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metoposaurus krasiejowensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Metoposaurus krasiejowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Coleoptera2 sites
- Cyclotosaurus intermedius2 sites
- Silesaurus opolensis2 sites
- Stagonolepis olenkae2 sites
- Bivalvia1 site
- Branchiopoda1 site
- Ceratodus silesiacus1 site
- Characeae1 site
- Charophyta1 site
- Coniferales1 site
- Crustacea1 site
- Darwinula1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Ozimek volans1 site
- Paleorhinus cf. arenaceus1 site
- Parasuchus1 site
- Polonosuchus silesiacus1 site
- Porochara1 site
- Pterosauria1 site
- Ptychoceratodus roemeri1 site
- Rhynchocephalia1 site
- Silesunio parvus1 site
- Stellatochara germanica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Metoposaurus krasiejowensis, 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
3 references- A new species of Metoposaurus from the Late Triassic of Portugal and comments on the systematics and biogeography of metoposaurid temnospondyls2
- The latest metoposaurids from Europe1
- Póznotriasowe cmentarzysko kregowców ladowych w Krasiejowie na Slasku Opolskim [Post-Triassic graveyard of terrestrial vertebrates in Krasiejów in Opole, Silesia]1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Metoposaurus krasiejowensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Metoposaurus krasiejowensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metoposaurus krasiejowensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMetoposaurus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brusatte et al. 2015