Olivierosuchus parringtoni
No picture of Olivierosuchus parringtoni was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Olivierosuchus parringtoni itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Olivierosuchus parringtoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OlivierosuchusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Therocephalia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Olivierosuchus parringtoni on record, most of them in the Early 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
5 occurrences- Early 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
2 formations
- Normandien Formation · Beaufort Group1
- Balfour Formation · Beaufort Group1
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The named rock units Olivierosuchus parringtoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Olivierosuchus parringtoni and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Olivierosuchus parringtoni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Moschorhinus kitchingi3 sites
- Lystrosaurus curvatus2 sites
- Lystrosaurus declivis2 sites
- Lystrosaurus murrayi2 sites
- Thrinaxodon liorhinus2 sites
- Broomistega putterilli1 site
- Galesaurus planiceps1 site
- Lydekkerina huxleyi1 site
- Lystrosaurus maccaigi1 site
- Procynosuchus delaharpeae1 site
- Proterosuchidae1 site
- Proterosuchus alexanderi1 site
- Regisaurus jacobi1 site
- Scaloposaurus constrictus1 site
- Tetracynodon darti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Olivierosuchus parringtoni, 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
2 references- A new skeleton of the therocephalian synapsid Olivierosuchus parringtoni from the Lower Triassic South African Karoo Basin4
- A new ictidosuchid (Scaloposauria) from the Lystrosaurus-zone1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Olivierosuchus parringtoni was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Olivierosuchus parringtoni itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Olivierosuchus parringtoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Olivierosuchus parringtoni was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itOlivierosuchus through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brink 1965)