Palaeosauropus

Palaeosauropus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TemnospondyliPBDB
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 least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–334 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences334–330 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–229 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences229–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323.4 Mya237 Mya361 Mya225 Mya

3 occurrences of Palaeosauropus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

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

Mauch Chunk — 40.67°N, 76.19°WMauch Chunk — 40.85°N, 75.79°WTimezgadiouine — 31.07°N, 8.96°W

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

Palaeosauropus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Palaeosauropus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Palaeosauropus, 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

3 references

Each 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. 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 Palaeosauropus

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iDigBio
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Palaeosauropus 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 itTemnospondyli through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hay 1902