Prolacertiformes

Prolacertiformes

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
ArchosauromorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 10 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 5 of 10 occurrencesLate Triassic253–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247 Mya227.3 Mya252.8 Mya204.8 Mya

10 occurrences of Prolacertiformes 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

8 formations

Bromsgrove Sandstone — 52.29°N, 1.58°WBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.30°N, 1.52°WBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.33°N, 2.08°WColorado City — 32.17°N, 101.25°WTecovas — 33.45°N, 101.17°WSanga do Cabral — 29.83°S, 54.23°WMuschelkalk — 41.27°N, 1.12°EMadygen — 40.07°N, 70.18°ETimezgadiouine — 31.06°N, 8.97°WRaibl — 47.38°N, 11.33°E

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

Prolacertiformes and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Prolacertiformes, 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

8 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 content1

Picture of Prolacertiformes

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 Prolacertiformes 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.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Camp 1945)