Plagiosauridae

Plagiosauridae is a clade of temnospondyls known from the Early to Late Triassic. Deposits of the group are most commonly found in non-marine aquatic depositional environments from central Europe and Greenland, but other remains have been found in Russia, Scandinavia, Australia, and possibly Thailand.

Plagiosauridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachyopoideaPBDB
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 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 63 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 6 of 63 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 38 of 63 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 19 of 63 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 63 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 2 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 3 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 3 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 5 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 5 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 7 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 15 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence232–230 Mya — about 1 occurrence230–228 Mya — about 1 occurrence228–227 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 1 occurrence213–211 Mya — about 1 occurrence211–209 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 3 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 3 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence250.8 Mya205.7 Mya253 Mya200 Mya

63 occurrences of Plagiosauridae on record, most of them in the Middle 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

63 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

21 formations

Erfurt — 49.07°N, 9.76°EErfurt — 49.00°N, 9.77°EErfurt — 49.08°N, 9.89°EErfurt — 49.18°N, 9.78°EErfurt — 50.83°N, 10.93°EErfurt — 49.21°N, 9.68°EErfurt — 50.88°N, 10.95°EErfurt — 50.38°N, 10.65°EDonguz — 51.42°N, 55.43°EDonguz — 51.55°N, 55.36°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.49°EDonguz — 52.41°N, 55.65°EDonguz — 52.53°N, 53.50°EDonguz — 51.46°N, 55.18°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.31°ETrossingen — 51.90°N, 11.07°EFleming Fjord — 71.37°N, 22.56°WFleming Fjord — 71.25°N, 22.53°WFleming Fjord — 71.83°N, 23.62°WBukobay — 52.41°N, 55.65°EWeser — 48.77°N, 9.20°EGrès à Avicula contorta — 48.62°N, 6.33°ELöwenstein — 49.06°N, 8.98°EZbaszynek Beds/Wielichowo Beds — 50.68°N, 18.65°EPetropavlovka — 50.81°N, 55.24°EHassberge — 49.84°N, 10.48°ESanga do Cabral — 29.72°S, 53.90°WHöganäs — 56.07°N, 12.96°EStuttgart — 49.42°N, 10.48°EArcadia — 24.83°S, 148.00°EInder — 48.51°N, 51.85°EEl'tonskiy — 48.51°N, 51.85°EKrasnokamenskaya — 67.58°N, 52.10°EYarenskian — 61.90°N, 45.97°EGostevskaya — 51.30°N, 54.31°EFremouw — 84.28°S, 164.35°E

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The named rock units Plagiosauridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plagiosauridae and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Plagiosauridae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

238 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Plagiosauridae, 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

21 references

Each of the 63 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. 9 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 content1

Picture of Plagiosauridae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Plagiosauridae 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.

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. Abel 1919