Titanosuchus ferox

Titanosuchus ferox

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
TitanosuchusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesPermian275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274.9 Mya259.4 Mya

12 occurrences of Titanosuchus ferox on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

12 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

1 formation

Abrahamskraal — 32.97°S, 22.02°EAbrahamskraal — 32.35°S, 22.58°EAbrahamskraal — 32.91°S, 22.03°EAbrahamskraal — 32.70°S, 21.75°EAbrahamskraal — 32.49°S, 22.17°E

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The named rock units Titanosuchus ferox 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.

Titanosuchus ferox and its relatives

Permian

Where Titanosuchus ferox and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Titanosuchus ferox, 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

3 references

Each of the 12 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 content2

Picture of Titanosuchus ferox

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

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Titanosuchus ferox · NHMUK:PAL:PV OR 49368

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. Owen 1879