Provelosaurus americanus
No picture of Provelosaurus americanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Provelosaurus americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProvelosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Pareiasauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Provelosaurus americanus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
3 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Rio do Rasto Formation · Passa Dois Group3
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The named rock units Provelosaurus americanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Provelosaurus americanus and its relatives
PermianWhere Provelosaurus americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Actinopterygii1 site
- Anteosauridae1 site
- Gnathorhizidae1 site
- Hybodontiformes1 site
- Tapinocephalia1 site
- Tapinocephalidae1 site
- Temnospondyli1 site
- Tetrapoda1 site
- Titanosuchidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Provelosaurus americanus, 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
2 references- A taxonomic revision of pareiasaurian reptiles: implications for Permian terrestrial paleoecology2
- New data on the late Permian vertebrate fauna of Posto Queimado, Rio do Rasto Formation, southern Brazil1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Provelosaurus americanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Provelosaurus americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Provelosaurus americanus 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 itProvelosaurus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Araújo 1985)