Pentasauropus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DicynodontiaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Dicynodontia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 7 of 10 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 10 occurrencesEarly Jurassic248–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237 Mya199.5 Mya248 Mya192 Mya

10 occurrences of Pentasauropus 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

10 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

7 formations

Elliot — 30.35°S, 27.60°EElliot — 30.22°S, 27.52°EMolteno — 30.37°S, 27.52°EMolteno — 29.34°S, 27.48°EChinle — 38.65°N, 108.91°WRock Point — 38.01°N, 109.54°WClarens — 28.88°S, 28.05°EVera — 40.84°S, 67.99°WCerro de Las Cabras — 32.37°S, 68.95°W

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

Pentasauropus and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Pentasauropus, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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 Pentasauropus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Pentasauropus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pentasauropus 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 itDicynodontia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ellenberger 1970