Stahleckeriidae

Stahleckeriidae is a family of large dicynodont therapsids whose fossils are known from the Triassic of North America, South America, Asia and Africa.

Stahleckeriidae

Kentaro Ohno · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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
KannemeyeriiformesPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Dicynodontia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 44 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 44 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 14 of 44 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 29 of 44 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 44 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 3 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 3 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 2 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–232 Mya — about 2 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 2 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 2 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 2 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 2 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 2 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 2 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 1 occurrence213–211 Mya — about 1 occurrence211–209 Mya — about 1 occurrence209–207 Mya — about 1 occurrence207–206 Mya — about 1 occurrence206–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.1 Mya227.3 Mya253 Mya200 Mya

44 occurrences of Stahleckeriidae 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

44 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

17 formations

Chinle — 34.44°N, 109.46°WChinle — 34.53°N, 109.32°WChinle — 34.95°N, 109.76°WChinle — 35.38°N, 109.37°WChinle — 35.03°N, 109.85°WChinle — 35.87°N, 111.31°WChinle — 35.90°N, 111.38°WSanta Maria — 29.80°S, 52.78°WSanta Maria — 29.67°S, 54.37°WSanta Maria — 30.01°S, 52.92°WSanta Maria — 29.55°S, 53.52°WTimezgadiouine — 31.03°N, 9.01°WTimezgadiouine — 31.07°N, 8.93°WBurgersdorp — 31.61°S, 26.39°EBurgersdorp — 31.53°S, 26.40°EBurgersdorp — 31.55°S, 26.50°EIschigualasto — 31.10°S, 68.90°WIschigualasto — 30.00°S, 68.00°WPekin — 35.56°N, 79.28°WPekin — 35.20°N, 79.87°WNtawere — 10.75°S, 33.08°EManda Beds — 10.34°S, 35.22°EManda Beds — 10.38°S, 35.16°EPopo Agie — 42.70°N, 108.67°WSanta Rosa — 35.46°N, 105.87°WLos Colorados — 29.83°S, 68.17°WCaturrita — 29.68°S, 52.84°WJiucaiyuan — 44.00°N, 88.83°EElliot — 30.95°S, 26.62°EZbaszynek Beds/Wielichowo Beds — 50.68°N, 18.65°ECooper Canyon — 33.00°N, 101.15°WChañares — 29.89°S, 67.85°W

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The named rock units Stahleckeriidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stahleckeriidae and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

166 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Stahleckeriidae, 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

29 references

Each of the 44 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. 17 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 Stahleckeriidae

Credit
Kentaro Ohno
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stahleckeriidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1965