Traversodontidae

Traversodontidae is an extinct family of herbivorous cynodonts. Traversodonts were primarily Gondwanan, with many species known from Africa and South America. Recently, traversodonts have also been found from Europe and North America. Traversodonts first appeared in the Middle Triassic and diversified in the Late Triassic before going extinct at the end of the epoch. The family Traversodontidae was erected by Friedrich von Huene in 1936 for cynodonts first found in São Pedro do Sul in Paleorrota, Brazil.

Traversodontidae

Marcio L. Castro · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
GomphodontiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 88 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 88 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 41 of 88 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 45 of 88 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 88 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 88 occurrencesLate Cretaceous254–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–242 Mya — about 13 occurrences242–236 Mya — about 32 occurrences236–230 Mya — about 16 occurrences230–223 Mya — about 8 occurrences223–217 Mya — about 3 occurrences217–211 Mya — about 4 occurrences211–205 Mya — about 4 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 6 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247 Mya205.7 Mya254 Mya69 Mya

88 occurrences of Traversodontidae 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

88 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

25 formations

Santa Maria — 29.67°S, 54.37°WSanta Maria — 29.70°S, 53.77°WSanta Maria — 29.74°S, 52.45°WSanta Maria — 29.57°S, 53.51°WSanta Maria — 29.75°S, 53.00°WSanta Maria — 29.72°S, 53.23°WSanta Maria — 29.67°S, 52.67°WSanta Maria — 29.67°S, 52.78°WSanta Maria — 29.65°S, 53.29°WSanta Maria — 29.70°S, 52.86°WSanta Maria — 29.63°S, 53.37°WSanta Maria — 29.64°S, 53.27°WSanta Maria — 29.78°S, 54.10°WChañares — 29.82°S, 67.82°WChañares — 29.85°S, 67.78°WIsalo II — 22.17°S, 45.00°EIsalo II — 22.92°S, 44.55°EManda Beds — 10.47°S, 34.78°EManda Beds — 10.28°S, 35.23°EManda Beds — 10.44°S, 35.00°EManda Beds — 10.33°S, 35.25°EManda Beds — 10.38°S, 35.16°EIschigualasto — 31.10°S, 68.90°WIschigualasto — 29.22°S, 68.70°WIschigualasto — 29.37°S, 68.23°WGrès à Avicula contorta — 48.62°N, 6.33°EWolfville — 45.31°N, 63.76°WWolfville — 45.14°N, 64.32°WWolfville — 45.40°N, 63.96°WOmingonde — 21.06°S, 16.39°EGrès de Mortinsart — 49.71°N, 5.62°ECerro de Las Cabras — 32.95°S, 69.25°WElliot — 30.52°S, 27.48°EElliot — 28.83°S, 28.07°EPebbly Arkose — 16.10°S, 30.47°EChinle — 35.03°N, 109.83°WRio Seco de la Quebrada — 34.88°S, 68.64°WMaleri — 19.17°N, 79.67°EErfurt — 49.07°N, 9.76°ENtawere — 10.75°S, 33.08°EErmaying — 36.92°N, 112.90°EElliot — 31.62°S, 26.42°ESables de Mortinsart — 49.71°N, 5.62°EHongyanjing — 41.95°N, 96.53°ETiki — 23.93°N, 81.38°ECacheuta — 32.95°S, 69.18°WCandelária — 29.67°S, 53.23°W

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The named rock units Traversodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Traversodontidae and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

253 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Traversodontidae, 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

62 references

Each of the 88 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. 50 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Traversodontidae

Credit
Marcio L. Castro
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Traversodontidae 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

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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. Huene 1936