Rhynchosauridae

Rhynchosauridae

G. Scharf · Public Domain · 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
RhynchosauriaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rhynchosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 115 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 40 of 115 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 75 of 115 occurrencesLate Triassic248–246 Mya — about 4 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 10 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 9 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 8 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 4 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 2 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 3 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 5 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 6 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 6 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 6 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 6 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 6 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 4 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 2 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 2 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 2 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 2 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 2 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 2 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 2 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences244.4 Mya227.3 Mya247.8 Mya204.9 Mya

115 occurrences of Rhynchosauridae 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

115 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

21 formations

Santa Maria — 29.70°S, 53.79°WSanta Maria — 29.63°S, 54.13°WSanta Maria — 29.73°S, 52.05°WSanta Maria — 29.65°S, 53.29°WSanta Maria — 29.70°S, 52.86°WSanta Maria — 29.63°S, 53.45°WOtter Sandstone — 50.66°N, 3.28°WOtter Sandstone — 50.68°N, 3.23°WOtter Sandstone — 50.63°N, 3.31°WPebbly Arkose — 16.23°S, 30.33°EPebbly Arkose — 16.10°S, 30.05°EPebbly Arkose — 16.10°S, 30.47°EMaleri — 19.22°N, 79.58°EMaleri — 19.17°N, 79.67°EMaleri — 18.63°N, 79.93°ETiki — 23.92°N, 81.37°ETiki — 23.92°N, 81.35°EChañares — 29.87°S, 67.72°WChañares — 29.82°S, 67.75°WIschigualasto — 30.14°S, 67.88°WIschigualasto — 30.14°S, 67.82°WMoenkopi — 34.78°N, 110.04°WMoenkopi — 35.02°N, 110.08°WMoenkopi — 35.02°N, 110.70°WLossiemouth Sandstone — 57.72°N, 3.29°WBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.29°N, 1.58°WBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.30°N, 1.52°WBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.33°N, 2.08°WCaturrita — 29.70°S, 53.77°WCaturrita — 29.67°S, 52.72°WIsalo II — 22.17°S, 45.00°EIsalo II — 22.00°S, 45.20°EIsalo II — 22.92°S, 44.55°EManda Beds — 10.38°S, 35.27°EManda Beds — 10.28°S, 35.23°EManda Beds — 10.30°S, 35.31°EWolfville — 45.22°N, 64.00°WWolfville — 45.14°N, 64.32°WWolfville — 45.32°N, 63.79°WColorado City — 32.17°N, 101.25°WColorado City — 32.18°N, 101.25°WTecovas — 35.38°N, 102.16°WChinle — 35.84°N, 111.25°WPopo Agie — 43.53°N, 106.80°WBull Canyon — 35.37°N, 103.38°WYerrapalli — 19.38°N, 79.25°ESanto Domingo — 28.50°S, 68.75°W

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The named rock units Rhynchosauridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhynchosauridae and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

217 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Rhynchosauridae, 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

44 references

Each of the 115 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. 32 further references are not listed. 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 Rhynchosauridae

Credit
G. Scharf
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhynchosauridae 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 itRhynchosauria through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1871)