Redondasuchus
Redondasuchus is an extinct genus of aetosaur. It may be a junior synonym of Typothorax coccinarum, another aetosaur. Redondasuchus is a member of the clade Typothoracisinae within the subfamily Aetosaurinae, and lived during the middle Norian stage of the Late Triassic. Material belonging to the genus has been found from the Redonda Formation in east-central New Mexico. The type species, R. reseri, was named in 1991 after having been referred to as a species of Typothorax since 1985. A second species, R. rineharti, was described in 2006.
No picture of Redondasuchus 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 Redondasuchus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TypothoracisinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Aetosauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Redondasuchus 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
4 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
- Redonda Formation · Chinle Group4
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The named rock units Redondasuchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Redondasuchus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Redondasuchus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Reptilia4 sites
- Metoposauridae3 sites
- Redfieldiidae3 sites
- Archosauria2 sites
- Lasalichthys2 sites
- Osteichthyes2 sites
- Perleidiformes2 sites
- Redondasaurus gregorii2 sites
- Semionotidae2 sites
- Sphenosuchidae2 sites
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Apachesaurus1 site
- Apachesaurus gregorii1 site
- Arganodus dorotheae1 site
- Coelacanthidae1 site
- Colobodontidae1 site
- Darwinula1 site
- Limnocytheriinae indet.1 site
- Machaeroprosopus1 site
- Mystriosuchinae1 site
- Parasuchidae1 site
- Procolophonidae1 site
- Rauisuchidae1 site
- Redondagnathus hunti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Redondasuchus, 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
4 references- Tetrapod fauna of the Upper Triassic Redonda formation, East-Central New Mexico: the characteristic assemblage of the Apachean land-vertebrate faunachron1
- Revision of Redondasuchus (Archosauria: Aetosauria) from the Upper Triassic Redonda Formation, New Mexico, with description of a new species1
- Late Triassic microvertebrate localities in New Mexico (USA): implications for paleoecology1
- A new aetosaur from the Redonda Formation (Late Triassic: middle Norian) of east central New Mexico, USA1
Each of the 4 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 Redondasuchus 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 Redondasuchus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Redondasuchus 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTypothoracisinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hunt and Lucas 1991