Venkatasuchus armatum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VenkatasuchusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Aetosauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 201.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Venkatasuchus armatum 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
1 occurrences- Late 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
1 formation
- Dharmaram Formation · Gondwana Group1
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The named rock units Venkatasuchus armatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Venkatasuchus armatum and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Venkatasuchus armatum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
2 taxa- Jaklapallisaurus asymmetrica1 site
- Sauropodomorpha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Venkatasuchus armatum, 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 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Venkatasuchus armatum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- DNB XD
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Venkatasuchus armatum 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 itVenkatasuchus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haldar et al. 2023