Trimerorhachis insignis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrimerorhachisPBDB
- 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 least 6.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
18 occurrences of Trimerorhachis insignis 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
18 occurrences- Permian100%
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
7 formations
- Vale Formation · Clear Fork Group4
- Wellington Formation · Sumner Group4
- Petrolia Formation · Wichita Group3
- Belle Plains Formation · Wichita Group2
- Garber Sandstone Formation · Sumner Group2
- Bead Mountain Formation1
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The named rock units Trimerorhachis insignis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trimerorhachis insignis and its relatives
PermianWhere Trimerorhachis insignis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Diadectes7 sites
- Eryops megacephalus6 sites
- Archeria5 sites
- Ophiacodon retroversus5 sites
- Diplocaulus4 sites
- Eryops4 sites
- Xenacanthus4 sites
- Captorhinus aguti3 sites
- Cardiocephalus sternbergi3 sites
- Dimetrodon giganhomogenes3 sites
- Dimetrodon limbatus3 sites
- Diplocaulus magnicornis3 sites
- Diplocaulus recurvatus3 sites
- Orthacanthus texensis3 sites
- Acheloma2 sites
- Captorhinikos valensis2 sites
- Captorhinoides valensis2 sites
- Dimetrodon2 sites
- Edaphosaurus2 sites
- Edaphosaurus boanerges2 sites
- Gnathorhiza dikeloda2 sites
- Labidosaurikos meachami2 sites
- Ophiacodon uniformis2 sites
- Orthacanthus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Trimerorhachis insignis, 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
13 references- Early Permian Vertebrates3
- New Specimens of Xenacanth and Hybodont Sharks (Elasmobranchii: Xenacanthida and Hybodontoidea) from the Lower Permian of Southwestern Oklahoma2
- The Vale Formation (Lower Permian): Its Vertebrates and Paleoecology2
- New and little known genera and species of vertebrates from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma2
- Morphology, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Diadectidae (Cotylosauria: Diadectomorpha)1
- The Postcranial Skeleton of Trimerorhachis insignis Cope, 1878 (Temnospondyli: Trimerorhachidae): A Plesiomorphic Temnospondyl from the Lower Permian of North America1
- Taphonomy of the Lower Permian Geraldine Bonebed in Archer County, Texas1
- Paleoenvironmental analysis of a Lower Permian bonebed and adjacent sediments, Wichita County, Texas1
- Fauna of the Vale and Choza: Summary, Review, and Integration of the Geology and the Faunas1
- Fauna of the Vale and Choza: 10. Trimerorhachis: Including a Revison of Pre-Vale Species1
- Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds1
- New or little known reptiles and amphibians from the Permian (?) of Texas1
Each of the 18 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. 1 further reference is 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 Trimerorhachis insignis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trimerorhachis insignis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTrimerorhachis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1878