Calyptosuchus wellesi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalyptosuchusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Aetosauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
45 occurrences of Calyptosuchus wellesi on record, most of them in the Late 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
45 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
5 formations
- Chinle Formation37
- Tecovas Formation · Dockum Group5
- Santa Rosa Formation · Chinle Group1
- Petrified Forest Formation · Chinle Group1
- Cooper Canyon Formation · Dockum Group1
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The named rock units Calyptosuchus wellesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calyptosuchus wellesi and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Calyptosuchus wellesi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Anaschisma browni27 sites
- Leptosuchus25 sites
- Aetosauria16 sites
- Apachesaurus gregorii8 sites
- Araucarioxylon arizonicum8 sites
- Postosuchus kirkpatricki8 sites
- Smilosuchus adamanensis8 sites
- Vancleavea campi7 sites
- Archosauria6 sites
- Arganodus6 sites
- Placerias6 sites
- Poposaurus gracilis6 sites
- Metoposauridae5 sites
- Redfieldiidae5 sites
- Reptilia5 sites
- Triodus moorei5 sites
- Acaenasuchus geoffreyi4 sites
- Colobodontidae4 sites
- Leptosuchus crosbiensis4 sites
- Lonchidion humblei4 sites
- Turseodus4 sites
- Arganodus dorotheae3 sites
- Australosomus3 sites
- Colognathus obscurus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Calyptosuchus wellesi, 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
9 references- Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) Tetrapods from the Southwestern United States36
- Geology and paleontology of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park and vicinity, Arizona and a discussion of vertebrate fossils of the southwestern Upper Triassic2
- Rotten Hill: A Late Triassic bonebed in the Texas Panhandle, USA1
- A taxonomic and biostratigraphic re-evaluation of the Post Quarry vertebrate assemblage from the Cooper Canyon Formation (Dockum Group, Upper Triassic) of southern Garza County, western Texas1
- Fossil occurrences and structural disturbance in the Triassic Chinle Formation at North Stinking Springs Mountain near St. Johns, Arizona1
- Vertebrate paleontology and biochronology of the lower Chinle Group (Upper Triassic), Santa Fe County, north-central New Mexico1
- Triassic vertebrate paleontology and biochronology of New Mexico1
- Aetosaur dermal armor from the Late Triassic of southwestern North America, with special reference to material from the Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park1
- The Triassic fossil bearing horizons near Wingate, New Mexico. With a description of Acompsosaurus wingatensis Mehl1
Each of the 45 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.
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No picture of Calyptosuchus wellesi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Calyptosuchus wellesi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Calyptosuchus wellesi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCalyptosuchus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Long and Ballew 1985)