Varanopus microdactylus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VaranopusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At least 41 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 247 Mya.
4 occurrences of Varanopus microdactylus 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
4 occurrences- Permian50%
- Early Triassic50%
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
- Tambach Formation · Rotliegend Group1
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The named rock units Varanopus microdactylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Varanopus microdactylus and its relatives
PermianWhere Varanopus microdactylus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Amphisauropus latus2 sites
- Batrachichnus salamandroides2 sites
- Rhynchosauroides kuletae2 sites
- Chelichnus duncani1 site
- Dimetropus1 site
- Dromopus lacertoides1 site
- Ichnium1 site
- Ichnium pachydactylum1 site
- Limnopus zeilleri1 site
- Palmichnus lacertoides1 site
- Paradoxichnium tumlinense1 site
- Phalangichnus gagoli1 site
- Phalangichnus gradzinskii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Varanopus microdactylus, 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- Late Permian vertebrate tracks from the Tumlin Sandstone, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland2
- Die Tierfährten in dem Rotliegenden “Deutschlands” [The animal tracks in the “German” Rotliegenden]2
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Varanopus microdactylus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Varanopus microdactylus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Varanopus microdactylus 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 itVaranopus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pabst 1896)