Axitectum
Searched as Axitectum vjushkovi. The Paleobiology Database treats Axitectum as the accepted name.
Axitectum is an extinct genus of bystrowianid chroniosuchians from lower Triassic deposits of Nizhni Novgorod and Kirov Regions, Russia. It was a rather large animal judging by the size of its vertebrae. The back was covered in bands of highly ornamented osteoderm plates, similar to those found in modern crocodiles. The bands overlapped with the next band at the posterior end.
ДиБгд · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
- AxitectinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Axitectum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- ДиБгд
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Axitectum 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Axitectum”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAxitectinae through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shishkin and Novikov 1992