Attenosaurus subulensis

Attenosaurus subulensis

Collector(s): Alabama Museum of Natural History · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AttenosaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Olsoniformes
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Olsoniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 307.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323.9 Mya306.9 Mya

4 occurrences of Attenosaurus subulensis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

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

Pottsville — 33.81°N, 87.17°WPottsville — 33.90°N, 87.52°WPottsville — 33.94°N, 87.22°W

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The named rock units Attenosaurus subulensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Attenosaurus subulensis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Attenosaurus subulensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

63 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Attenosaurus subulensis, 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

3 references

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

Media content1

Picture of Attenosaurus subulensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): Alabama Museum of Natural History
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Attenosaurus subulensis 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 itAttenosaurus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aldrich 1930