Synaptichnium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChirotheriidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 11 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 15 of 28 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 28 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 28 occurrencesEarly Jurassic253–251 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences249–247 Mya — about 7 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 4 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 4 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 3 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 2 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence237–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247 Mya201.4 Mya253 Mya192 Mya

28 occurrences of Synaptichnium on record, most of them in the Middle 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

28 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

11 formations

Timezgadiouine — 30.82°N, 9.09°WGrès d'Antully — 46.90°N, 4.42°EGrès d'Antully — 46.61°N, 4.48°EWióry — 50.96°N, 21.20°EGrès Inférieurs du Lyonnais — 45.25°N, 5.32°EMoenkopi — 35.04°N, 111.03°WMoenkopi — 35.84°N, 111.47°WTimezgadiwine — 30.83°N, 9.09°WElliot — 30.40°S, 27.72°EBaranów — 51.03°N, 20.87°EChirotheriensandstein — 50.43°N, 10.78°EBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.67°N, 2.17°WGrès Inférieurs du Maçonnais — 46.25°N, 4.74°E

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The named rock units Synaptichnium 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.

Synaptichnium and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Synaptichnium and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Synaptichnium, 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

17 references

Each of the 28 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. 5 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 content0

No picture of Synaptichnium 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 Synaptichnium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Synaptichnium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itChirotheriidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nopcsa 1923