Araeoscelidia
Searched as Araeoscelida. The Paleobiology Database treats Araeoscelidia as the accepted name.
No picture of Araeoscelidia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Araeoscelidia 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 Araeoscelidia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiapsidaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 274.4 Mya.
10 occurrences of Araeoscelidia 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
10 occurrences- Carboniferous35%
- Permian65%
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
8 formations
- Stanton Formation · Lansing Group2
- Halgaito Formation · Cutler Group2
- Nocona Formation · Wichita Group1
- Arroyo Formation · Clear Fork Group1
- Calhoun Shale Formation · Shawnee Group1
- Waggoner Ranch Formation · Wichita Group1
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The named rock units Araeoscelidia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Araeoscelidia and its relatives
PermianWhere Araeoscelidia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Eryops3 sites
- Araeoscelis casei2 sites
- Captorhinus aguti2 sites
- Edaphosaurus2 sites
- Ophiacodon2 sites
- Trimerorhachis2 sites
- Acanthostomatops vorax1 site
- Acheloma cumminsi1 site
- Actiobates peabodyi1 site
- Amniota1 site
- Apateon gracilis1 site
- Araeoscelida1 site
- Araeoscelis gracilis1 site
- Archaeovenator hamiltonensis1 site
- Archegosaurus latifrons1 site
- Bolosaurus1 site
- Brachydectes1 site
- Brachydectes newberryi1 site
- Branchierpeton amblystomum1 site
- Broiliellus1 site
- Captorhinus1 site
- Captorhinus laticeps1 site
- Diadectes1 site
- Dimetrodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Araeoscelidia, 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
8 references- The Permian reptile Araeoscelis restudied2
- Petrolacosaurus kansensis Lane, a Pennsylvanian Reptile from Kansas2
- Halgaitosaurus gregarius, a new Upper Carboniferous Araeoscelidian (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Halgaito Formation, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, USA1
- A multitaxic bonebed near the Carboniferous–Permian boundary (Halgaito Formation, Cutler Group) in Valley of the Gods, Utah, USA: Vertebrate paleontology and taphonomy1
- A new diapsid reptile from the uppermost Carboniferous (Stephanian) of Kansas1
- A new araeoscelid reptile, Zarcasaurus tanyderus, from the Cutler Formation (Lower Permian) of north-central New Mexico1
- On the structure and affinities of Bolosaurus1
- Die Stegocephalen und Saurier aus dem Rothliegenden des Plauen'schen Grundes bei Dresden1
Each of the 10 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 Araeoscelidia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Araeoscelidia 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 Araeoscelidia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Araeoscelidia 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 itDiapsida through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Williston 1913)