Procolophonichnium

Procolophonichnium

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
Sits inside
ProcolophonoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 5 of 14 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 14 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–251 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–247 Mya — about 2 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251.902 Mya227.3 Mya261 Mya200 Mya

14 occurrences of Procolophonichnium on record. 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

14 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

9 formations

Arenarie de Val Gardena — 46.37°N, 11.42°EVossenveld — 51.97°N, 6.73°ETimezgadiouine — 30.82°N, 9.09°WPassaic — 40.85°N, 74.14°WMoenkopi — 35.04°N, 111.03°WRichthofen Conglomerate — 46.66°N, 12.00°ERio do Rasto — 23.80°S, 50.63°WWióry — 50.96°N, 21.20°EBalfour — 33.00°S, 20.45°E

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

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Procolophonichnium, 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

11 references

Each of the 14 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 content1

Picture of Procolophonichnium

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itProcolophonoidea through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nopcsa 1923