Phytosauria

Searched as Parasuchia indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Phytosauria as the accepted name.

No picture of Phytosauria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Phytosauria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
phytosaurPBDB
Sits inside
PseudosuchiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 39 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 38 of 39 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 39 occurrencesEarly Jurassic238–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 2 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 2 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 2 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 2 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227.3 Mya199.5 Mya237.9 Mya192 Mya

39 occurrences of Phytosauria 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

39 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

6 formations

Bluewater Creek — 35.42°N, 108.49°WBluewater Creek — 35.43°N, 108.57°WChinle — 34.44°N, 109.46°WChinle — 35.47°N, 108.56°WChinle — 35.41°N, 108.47°WChinle — 35.47°N, 108.53°WChinle — 35.88°N, 111.41°WChinle — 34.53°N, 109.32°WCooper Canyon — 33.52°N, 101.32°WCooper Canyon — 33.00°N, 101.15°WCooper Canyon — 33.45°N, 101.44°WCooper Canyon — 33.11°N, 101.45°WFalling Creek — 37.83°N, 77.43°WTecovas — 33.52°N, 101.14°WLufeng — 25.17°N, 102.10°E

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The named rock units Phytosauria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phytosauria and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Phytosauria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

454 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 434 sites for Phytosauria, and this reads 240 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

8 references

Each of the 39 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 content0

No picture of Phytosauria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Phytosauria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Phytosauria 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPseudosuchia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

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