Trachelosaurus fischeri

Trachelosaurus fischeri

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
TrachelosaurusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 1.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 245.19 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiddle Triassic247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247.5 Mya244.69 Mya

1 occurrence of Trachelosaurus fischeri 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

1 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

  • Solling Formation · Middle Buntsandstein GroupSachsen-Anhalt · DE · 247–245.19 Mya1
Solling — 51.80°N, 11.73°E

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The named rock units Trachelosaurus fischeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Trachelosaurus fischeri and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Trachelosaurus fischeri and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Trachelosaurus fischeri, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Trachelosaurus fischeri

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 Trachelosaurus fischeri 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 itTrachelosaurus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broili and Fischer 1917