Neldasaurus wrightae

Neldasaurus wrightae

Smokeybjb · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
NeldasaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At most 25 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPermian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPermian299–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences282–282 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299.4 Mya273.9 Mya

4 occurrences of Neldasaurus wrightae 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

4 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

3 formations

Archer City — 33.58°N, 98.65°WArcher City — 33.43°N, 98.78°WMoran — 33.31°N, 98.96°WPutnam — 33.66°N, 98.63°W

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

Neldasaurus wrightae and its relatives

Permian

Where Neldasaurus wrightae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Neldasaurus wrightae, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Neldasaurus wrightae

Credit
Smokeybjb
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itNeldasaurus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chase 1965