Tarjadia ruthae
No picture of Tarjadia ruthae was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tarjadia ruthae itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tarjadia ruthae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TarjadiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 170 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tarjadia ruthae 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
4 occurrences- Middle Triassic75%
- Late Triassic5%
- Early Jurassic4%
- Middle Jurassic2%
- Late Jurassic3%
- Early Cretaceous6%
- Late Cretaceous4%
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
- Chañares Formation · Agua de la Peña Group4
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The named rock units Tarjadia ruthae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tarjadia ruthae and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Tarjadia ruthae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Lagerpeton chanarensis2 sites
- Lewisuchus admixtus2 sites
- Luperosuchus fractus2 sites
- Tropidosuchus romeri2 sites
- Chanaresuchus bonapartei1 site
- Chiniquodon theotonicus1 site
- Dinodontosaurus1 site
- Dinodontosaurus brevirostris1 site
- Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum1 site
- Gualosuchus reigi1 site
- Marasuchus lilloensis1 site
- Massetognathus pascuali1 site
- Probainognathus jenseni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tarjadia ruthae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- A distinctive new archosaur from the Middle Triassic (Los Chanares Formation) of Argentina3
- Paleoenvironment and taphonomy of the Chanares Formation tetrapod assemblage (Middle Triassic), northwestern Argentina: spectacular preservation in volcanogenic concretions1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Tarjadia ruthae was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tarjadia ruthae itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tarjadia ruthae, 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTarjadia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arcucci and Marsicano 1999