Brontopus giganteus

No picture of Brontopus giganteus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Brontopus giganteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrontopusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences259.857 Mya254.14 Mya267.4 Mya251.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Brontopus giganteus 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

6 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

2 formations

Salagou — 43.63°N, 3.27°EAbrahamskraal — 32.97°S, 22.42°EAbrahamskraal — 32.98°S, 22.19°E

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The named rock units Brontopus giganteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brontopus giganteus and its relatives

Permian

Where Brontopus giganteus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Brontopus giganteus, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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 Brontopus giganteus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Brontopus giganteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Brontopus giganteus 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 itBrontopus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heyler and Lessertisseur 1963