Chirotherium ferox
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChirotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Chirotherium ferox on record, most of them in the Middle 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
11 occurrences- Middle 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
4 formations
- Grès d'Antully Formation6
- Grès Inférieurs du Roubreau Formation1
- Inférieure Formation1
- Grès Inférieurs du Lyonnais Formation1
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The named rock units Chirotherium ferox has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chirotherium ferox and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Chirotherium ferox and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Brachychirotherium pachydactylum5 sites
- Chirotherium barthii5 sites
- Anchisauripus bibractensis4 sites
- Brachychirotherium circaparvum4 sites
- Coelurosaurichnus perriauxi4 sites
- Rhynchosauroides petri4 sites
- Brachychirotherium3 sites
- Isochirotherium3 sites
- Isochirotherium coureli3 sites
- Phalangichnus3 sites
- Rhynchosauroides3 sites
- Rotodactylus lucasi3 sites
- Rotodactylus rati3 sites
- Brachychirotherium parvum2 sites
- Chirotheriidae2 sites
- Isochirotherium delicatum2 sites
- Rotodactylus2 sites
- Anchisauripus1 site
- Archosauria1 site
- Brachychirotherium gallicum1 site
- Brachychirotherium lorteti1 site
- Coelurosaurichnus1 site
- Coelurosaurichnus largentierensis1 site
- Coelurosaurichnus sabinensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Chirotherium ferox, 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
6 references- Les traces de vertébrés triasiques de l’Autunois et du Nord du Charollais [Triassic vertebrate traces from the Autunois and the northern Charollais]3
- Empreintes de Pas de Vertébrés du Trias de la Bordure Nord-Est du Massif Central (Vertebrate Footprints from the Triassic of the Northeast Border of the Massif Central]3
- Empreintes de pas de Vertébrés et stratigraphie du Trias [Vertebrate footprints and Triassic stratigraphy]2
- Tentative stratigraphic correlation using ichnological data from continental sandstone series and marine faunas in the Middle Triassic of Europe1
- Interprétations paléontologique et paléoécologique d'un sixième assemblage à traces de Reptiles des carrières triasiques de Saint-Sernin-du-Bois (Autunois - France). Conclusions générales à l'étude du gisement fossilifère [Paleontological and paleoecological interpretations of a sixth assemblage of reptile traces from the Triassic quarries of Saint-Sernin-du-Bois (Autun - France). General conclusions from the study of the fossiliferous locality]1
- Les empreintes de pas fossiles des grés triasiques de la mine de Largentière (Ardèche) [The fossil footprints from the Triassic sandstones of the Largentière mine (Ardèche)]1
Each of the 11 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 Chirotherium ferox 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 Chirotherium ferox, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chirotherium ferox 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChirotherium through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Demathieu 1966)