Termatosaurus

Termatosaurus is a potentially dubious genus of archosaur known from several tooth specimens. Its remains come from the Upper Triassic of France, England, Germany and Switzerland.

Termatosaurus

Uncredited · 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
PhytosauriaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phytosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 4.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 8 of 8 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206.2 Mya200.9 Mya

8 occurrences of Termatosaurus 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

8 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

3 formations

Exter — 48.56°N, 9.07°EExter — 48.55°N, 9.07°EWestbury — 51.60°N, 2.63°WGrès de Infralias — 48.01°N, 5.53°E

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The named rock units Termatosaurus 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.

Termatosaurus and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Termatosaurus, 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

7 references

Each of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Termatosaurus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Termatosaurus 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 itPhytosauria through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plieninger 1844