Plesioelliptio sp.
No picture of Plesioelliptio sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plesioelliptio sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Plesioelliptio sp. 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
1 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
- Tecovas Formation · Chinle Group1
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The named rock units Plesioelliptio sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plesioelliptio sp. and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Plesioelliptio sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Aetosauria1 site
- Anaschisma browni1 site
- Apachesaurus gregorii1 site
- Arganodus dorotheae1 site
- Calyptosuchus wellesi1 site
- Colobodontidae1 site
- Hemicalypterus weiri1 site
- Lasalichthys1 site
- Neoselachii1 site
- Orectolobiformes1 site
- Postosuchus1 site
- Redfieldiidae1 site
- Rhynchosauridae1 site
- Shuvosauridae1 site
- Smilosuchus gregorii1 site
- Sphenodontidae1 site
- Spinosuchus1 site
- Trilophosaurus buettneri1 site
- Triodus moorei1 site
- Turseodus1 site
- Vancleavea campi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Plesioelliptio sp., 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 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Plesioelliptio sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plesioelliptio sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Plesioelliptio sp. 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.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.