Psephoderma alpinum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PsephodermaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Sauropterygia
Time the record covers
At least 5.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 215.38 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
7 occurrences of Psephoderma alpinum 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
7 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Psephoderma alpinum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Psephoderma alpinum and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Psephoderma alpinum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Birgeria2 sites
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli2 sites
- Sargodon2 sites
- Acrodus1 site
- Acrodus lateralis1 site
- Birgeria acuminata1 site
- Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus1 site
- Endennasaurus acutirostris1 site
- Eudimorphodon ranzii1 site
- Lepidotes1 site
- Leptonectes1 site
- Lissodus minimus1 site
- Megalancosaurus endennae1 site
- Megalancosaurus preonensis1 site
- Micrabacia1 site
- Mystriosuchus1 site
- Mystriosuchus planirostris1 site
- Nemacanthus monilifer1 site
- Pamiroseris rectilamellosa1 site
- Placochelys1 site
- Polyacrodus cloacinus1 site
- Retiophyllia langobardica1 site
- Retiophyllia sellae1 site
- Sargodon tomicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Psephoderma alpinum, 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
5 references- Denti di rettili placodonti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano2
- Ein großer Ichthyosaurier aus den Kössener Schichten der Nordalpen2
- New specimen of Psephoderma alpinum (Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the Late Triassic of Schesaplana Mountain, Graubünden, Switzerland1
- The dermal armor of the cyamodontoid placodonts (Reptilia, Sauropterygia): morphology and systematic value1
- Anatomia, morfologia funzionale e paleoecologia del rettile placodonte Psephoderma alpiunum Meyer, 18581
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Psephoderma alpinum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Psephoderma alpinum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itPsephoderma through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meyer 1858