Cyclotosaurus posthumus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclotosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Cyclotosaurus
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
4 occurrences of Cyclotosaurus posthumus 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
4 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
3 formations
- Löwenstein Formation · Keuper Group2
- Trossingen Formation · Keuper Group1
- Löwenstein (reg.: Stubensandstein) Formation1
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The named rock units Cyclotosaurus posthumus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclotosaurus posthumus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Cyclotosaurus posthumus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Mystriosuchus2 sites
- Aetosaurus ferratus1 site
- Apatosuchus orbitoangulatus1 site
- Efraasia minor1 site
- Gerrothorax pulcherrimus1 site
- Metoposauridae1 site
- Mystriosuchinae1 site
- Nicrosaurus kapffi1 site
- Nicrosaurus meyeri1 site
- Paratypothorax1 site
- Plateosaurus gracilis1 site
- Procompsognathus triassicus1 site
- Saltoposuchus connectens1 site
- Saltoposuchus longipes1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cyclotosaurus posthumus, 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- The Triassic labyrinthodonts from Germany2
- The morphology and evolutionary history of the temnospondyl genus Cyclotosaurus with a focus on material from Germany1
- Beiträge zur Keuperfauna von Halberstadt [Contributions to the Keuper fauna of Halberstadt]1
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. 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
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No picture of Cyclotosaurus posthumus was found. Wikipedia, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikidata 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 Cyclotosaurus posthumus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyclotosaurus posthumus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itCyclotosaurus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fraas 1913