Palaeosauropus primaevus

Palaeosauropus primaevus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeosauropusPBDB
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 36 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359.6 Mya322.7 Mya

1 occurrence of Palaeosauropus primaevus 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

1 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

1 formation

Mauch Chunk — 40.67°N, 76.19°W

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

Palaeosauropus primaevus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Palaeosauropus primaevus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Palaeosauropus primaevus, 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 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Palaeosauropus primaevus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Palaeosauropus primaevus 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 itPalaeosauropus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lea 1849)