Parareptilia

Parareptilia ("near-reptiles") is an extinct subclass of basal sauropsids ("reptiles"). Traditionally considered the sister taxon to Eureptilia, its validity as a monophyletic clade has been disputed by modern cladistic analyses.

Parareptilia

the paleo bear Yara Haridy et al. Paul Hudson Ghedoghedo GaKaGaMa · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
Also called
parareptilePBDB
Sits inside
ReptiliaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 101 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 309.8 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 404 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 238 of 404 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 83 of 404 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 42 of 404 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 38 of 404 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 404 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 404 occurrences313–308 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences308–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences303–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–294 Mya — about 3 occurrences294–289 Mya — about 4 occurrences289–284 Mya — about 11 occurrences284–280 Mya — about 4 occurrences280–275 Mya — about 4 occurrences275–270 Mya — about 13 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 19 occurrences266–261 Mya — about 68 occurrences261–256 Mya — about 69 occurrences256–252 Mya — about 47 occurrences252–247 Mya — about 78 occurrences247–242 Mya — about 31 occurrences242–238 Mya — about 10 occurrences238–233 Mya — about 7 occurrences233–228 Mya — about 6 occurrences228–224 Mya — about 4 occurrences224–219 Mya — about 3 occurrences219–214 Mya — about 3 occurrences214–209 Mya — about 3 occurrences209–205 Mya — about 5 occurrences205–200 Mya — about 9 occurrences200–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307.4 Mya205.7 Mya313 Mya172 Mya

404 occurrences of Parareptilia on record, most of them in the Permian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

404 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

100 formations

Abrahamskraal — 32.33°S, 21.80°EAbrahamskraal — 32.11°S, 21.23°EAbrahamskraal — 32.47°S, 21.77°EAbrahamskraal — 32.46°S, 21.86°EAbrahamskraal — 32.82°S, 21.97°EAbrahamskraal — 32.86°S, 22.11°EAbrahamskraal — 32.91°S, 22.03°EAbrahamskraal — 32.90°S, 21.82°EAbrahamskraal — 32.49°S, 22.17°EAbrahamskraal — 32.70°S, 21.75°EAbrahamskraal — 32.44°S, 22.19°EAbrahamskraal — 32.37°S, 22.00°EAbrahamskraal — 32.97°S, 22.02°EKatberg — 32.11°S, 26.51°EKatberg — 32.20°S, 26.12°EKatberg — 30.47°S, 26.06°EKatberg — 32.29°S, 27.10°EKatberg — 31.60°S, 25.45°EKatberg — 30.50°S, 25.97°EKatberg — 31.18°S, 24.95°EKatberg — 32.00°S, 26.26°EKatberg — 30.59°S, 26.37°EKatberg — 31.50°S, 25.00°EBalfour — 31.73°S, 25.00°EBalfour — 32.06°S, 24.19°EBalfour — 31.87°S, 24.55°EBalfour — 32.15°S, 23.89°EBalfour — 32.04°S, 24.22°EBalfour — 32.16°S, 24.55°EBalfour — 32.05°S, 24.29°EBalfour — 31.95°S, 23.77°EBalfour — 33.00°S, 20.45°EBelebei — 54.11°N, 54.13°EBelebei — 52.58°N, 54.42°EBelebei — 53.65°N, 53.57°EBelebei — 52.52°N, 54.70°EBelebei — 52.65°N, 54.64°EBelebei — 52.36°N, 55.88°EShihtienfeng, Shiqianfeng, Sunjiagou — 37.41°N, 110.82°EShihtienfeng, Shiqianfeng, Sunjiagou — 37.43°N, 110.88°EShihtienfeng, Shiqianfeng, Sunjiagou — 39.03°N, 111.11°EBurgersdorp — 30.68°S, 26.70°EBurgersdorp — 30.62°S, 26.61°EBurgersdorp — 30.91°S, 26.11°EBurgersdorp — 30.42°S, 26.83°EBurgersdorp — 28.18°S, 27.96°ESanga do Cabral — 29.62°S, 54.39°WSanga do Cabral — 29.83°S, 54.23°WSanga do Cabral — 29.62°S, 55.05°WSalarevo — 61.19°N, 46.63°ESalarevo — 59.96°N, 43.11°EWolfville — 45.14°N, 64.32°WWolfville — 45.32°N, 63.79°WWolfville — 45.30°N, 63.75°WWolfville — 45.22°N, 64.00°WWolfville — 45.40°N, 63.96°WWerra — 51.26°N, 8.88°EWerra — 51.58°N, 10.62°EWerra — 50.68°N, 10.92°EWerra — 51.54°N, 10.87°EWerra — 51.00°N, 9.95°EWerra — 50.99°N, 9.93°EPetropavlovka — 52.03°N, 55.64°EPetropavlovka — 50.81°N, 55.24°EPetropavlovka — 51.39°N, 55.28°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 10.83°S, 33.17°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 10.57°S, 32.97°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 10.70°S, 33.21°EKutulukskaya — 53.29°N, 53.01°EKutulukskaya — 52.78°N, 53.16°EKutulukskaya — 53.31°N, 52.31°ETeekloof — 32.15°S, 22.01°ETeekloof — 32.31°S, 22.08°ETeekloof — 32.08°S, 22.11°ETeekloof — 31.97°S, 21.69°EArenarie de Val Gardena — 46.37°N, 11.42°EUrpalov — 58.15°N, 48.35°ECharkabozh — 65.45°N, 52.11°ECharkabozh — 69.28°N, 49.93°ERio do Rasto — 30.02°S, 54.15°WRio do Rasto — 31.84°S, 54.17°WRio do Rasto — 23.80°S, 50.63°WPassaic — 40.89°N, 74.17°WPassaic — 40.86°N, 74.14°WPassaic — 40.85°N, 74.14°WFremouw — 85.22°S, 177.00°WFremouw — 85.22°S, 175.50°WFremouw — 85.13°S, 174.83°WFremouw — 85.05°S, 172.50°EOtter Sandstone — 50.68°N, 3.23°WOtter Sandstone — 50.67°N, 3.27°WSanta Maria — 29.77°S, 52.75°WSanta Maria — 29.75°S, 53.00°WSanta Maria — 29.74°S, 54.00°WChinle — 34.68°N, 109.58°WChinle — 37.80°N, 109.54°WChinle — 35.65°N, 111.12°WChinle — 34.44°N, 109.46°WPoldarsa — 60.60°N, 45.53°EPoldarsa — 60.58°N, 45.43°EPoldarsa — 60.61°N, 45.62°E

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The named rock units Parareptilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 76 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 110 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parareptilia and its relatives

Permian

Where Parareptilia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 207 sites for Parareptilia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

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

186 references

Each of the 404 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. 174 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Parareptilia

Credit
the paleo bear Yara Haridy et al. Paul Hudson Ghedoghedo GaKaGaMa
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lawrence 1868)