Thaumastosaurus bottii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThaumastosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Thaumastosaurus bottii on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Thaumastosaurus bottii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Thaumastosaurus bottii and its relatives
EoceneWhere Thaumastosaurus bottii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Eoconstrictor fischeri2 sites
- Lophiotherium cervulum2 sites
- Palaeopython helveticus2 sites
- Simamphicyon helveticus2 sites
- Suevosciurus minimus2 sites
- Adelomys1 site
- Ameghinornis minor1 site
- Amphiperatherium bastbergense1 site
- Anguimorpha1 site
- Anguinae1 site
- Anoplotherium laurillardi1 site
- Ayalasaurus tenuis1 site
- Blanus1 site
- Brevisaurus smithi1 site
- Bufo serratus1 site
- Cadurcogekko piveteaui1 site
- Cebochoerus helveticus1 site
- Dracaenosaurus croizeti1 site
- Eurheloderma gallicum1 site
- Geiseltaliellus lamandini1 site
- Heteroclitotriton zitteli1 site
- Lophiotherium siderolithicum1 site
- Mediolacerta1 site
- Mediolacerta roceki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Thaumastosaurus bottii, 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
2 references- Eocene Western European endemic genus Thaumastosaurus: new insights into the question "Are the Ranidae known prior to the Oligocene?''5
- The lower vertebrates from the Eocene and Oligocene of the Phosphorites du Quercy (France): an overview1
Each of the 6 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. 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 Thaumastosaurus bottii was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Thaumastosaurus bottii, 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.
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What may have been alongside itThaumastosaurus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. De Stefano 1903