Nicrosaurus meyeri
No picture of Nicrosaurus meyeri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Nicrosaurus meyeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NicrosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phytosauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Nicrosaurus meyeri 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
3 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
1 formation
- Löwenstein Formation · Keuper Group3
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The named rock units Nicrosaurus meyeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nicrosaurus meyeri and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Nicrosaurus meyeri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Plateosaurus gracilis2 sites
- Aetosaurus ferratus1 site
- Apatosuchus orbitoangulatus1 site
- Cyclotosaurus posthumus1 site
- Efraasia minor1 site
- Gerrothorax pulcherrimus1 site
- Mystriosuchus1 site
- Nicrosaurus kapffi1 site
- Paratypothorax andressorum1 site
- Procompsognathus triassicus1 site
- Saltoposuchus connectens1 site
- Saltoposuchus longipes1 site
- Suchia1 site
- Tanystropheus1 site
- Teratosaurus suevicus1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nicrosaurus meyeri, 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 referenceEach of the 3 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 Nicrosaurus meyeri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Nicrosaurus meyeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nicrosaurus meyeri 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNicrosaurus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hungerbühler and Hunt 2000