Xenotosuchus africanus

No picture of Xenotosuchus africanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Xenotosuchus africanus 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 Xenotosuchus africanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XenotosuchusPBDB
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 most 5.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 7 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Triassic247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247.5 Mya241 Mya

7 occurrences of Xenotosuchus africanus 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

7 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

1 formation

Burgersdorp — 30.88°S, 26.22°EBurgersdorp — 31.00°S, 26.33°EBurgersdorp — 30.91°S, 26.11°E

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The named rock units Xenotosuchus africanus 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.

Xenotosuchus africanus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Xenotosuchus africanus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Xenotosuchus africanus, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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 content0

No picture of Xenotosuchus africanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Xenotosuchus africanus 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 Xenotosuchus africanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Xenotosuchus africanus 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 itXenotosuchus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Broom 1909)