Trirachodon berryi
No picture of Trirachodon berryi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Trirachodon berryi itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Trirachodon berryi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrirachodonPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Trirachodon berryi 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
4 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
2 formations
- Burgersdorp Formation · Beaufort Group3
- Omingonde Formation · Karoo Group1
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The named rock units Trirachodon berryi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trirachodon berryi and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Trirachodon berryi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Bauria cynops1 site
- Bolotridon frerensis1 site
- Cynognathus crateronotus1 site
- Diademodon1 site
- Kannemeyeria simocephala1 site
- Kombuisia frerensis1 site
- Sysphinctostoma smithi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Trirachodon berryi, 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
2 references- The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna3
- Distribution and diversity patterns of Triassic cynodonts (Therapsida, Cynodontia) in Gondwana1
Each of the 4 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 content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Trirachodon berryi · bp:1:4658
No picture of Trirachodon berryi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Trirachodon berryi itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Trirachodon berryi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTrirachodon through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seeley 1895